CHURCHILL AUCTION
Au offer of books from Invercargill for lhe Churchill auction, to be conducted in Wellington, shows that this Patriotic effort is arousing interest among many who are no longer resident in M elliugton. A letter from Mr. E. B. Pilcher, Invercaigill, states: “Fortunately I hold the books from the collection of the late L<ln aid , Catchpool, who arrived iu ” eU,n “ t< ?" : with his uncle, Mr. E. Betts Hopper, 1 I the year 1840. My late fathers mother was E. Catchpool’s sister, so you wit realize mv close connexion with the eai y ' pioneers at Wellington, and therefore my i doubts at parting with old relics. Due to my being an old Wellingtonian. as was also my late father, Mr. 11. J. I ilcher, 1 I prefer sending the books direct to the National Patriotic Fund Board, with the hopes that they will return a very satisfactory figure.” Gifts of books, pictures, and antiques are still being received oy the honorary Dominion organizer, Mr. Pat. Lawlor, at his olliec in Nathans Buildings,
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 250, 21 July 1942, Page 2
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173CHURCHILL AUCTION Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 250, 21 July 1942, Page 2
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