KING'S JUBILEE GIFT
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —All the countries comprising the British Commonwealth of Nations | are offering gifts to the King in honour of his Majesty's Silver Jubilee. I am aware that there are many causes deserving help, particularly at the present time, but, so far as New Zealand is concerned, it is in accordance with his Majesty's pleasure that all moneys collected for the King's Jubilee'gift in New Zealand are to be devoted not to a gift personal to himself, but to the object of ■ assisting the various forms of cancer research and treatment in this country for the relief of the many sufferers from this scourge.' The King is patron of the British Em-j pire Cancer Campaign, and the Duke of York founded the branch in New Zealand. The New Zealand Government has given £5000 as a foundation for the people's Jubilee gift, but no Government can with dignity or propriety press the people to give money in accordance with their Sovereign's desire, even when ,he diverts it from himself to a noble cause.
The response in New Zealand so far has not been sufficient to dispel the fear that New Zealand, which rightly prides itself on its attachment ito the Throne, will- compare unfavourably with Canada, any of the Australian States, or South Africa.
Comparatively large donations may be sent to the Cancer Society Head Office, 212 Lambton Quay, Wellington, but it has become evident that people of slender resources, the great majority, are reluctant to take their mite to the money-order offices ready to recejve donations throughout the length and breadth of New Zealand. For the credit of this Dominion, and to meet this difficulty, I trust that all large offices, factories, shops, workshops, and family circles will at once open a subscription, list so that as many loyal and grateful subjects of King George as possible can give an individual shilling to honour the King, and at the same time help themselves, making it more convenient that the total sum subscribed on the list can be paid into any post office and a receipt obtained.—l am, etc., . J. S. ELLIOTT. May 10.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 110, 11 May 1935, Page 8
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