A GREAT GIFT FOR GREAT SERVICE
The donation of £30,000 from the accumulated funds of the Meat Producers' Board to purchase aeroplanes as a gesture of appreciation of the wonderful service being performed by the Royal Air Force has a double significance. It expresses the patriotic admiration of the meat producers as Empire citizens and also their recognition, as producers, of the fact that the airmen are fighting over Britain and Germany a war for the Empire. The donation may be likened to the patriotic gift made by New Zealand sheep farmers after the Great War as an "acknowledgment of debt to British seamen." The wool growers! declared by their gift that, if the British Nayy had not kept the seas open and the Merchant Service had not kept on the seas in spite of German attacks, the wool growers would have been unable to market their, produce. In the same way the meat| producers give generous emphasis now to their recognition that New Zealand and New Zealand's productive power are being defended in European skies as surely as if the defenders were flying in the Southern Hemisphere. The spirit which prompts this generous acknowledgment is the bond that links producer and fighter (in many instances farmer-father and pilot-son) in an unbreakable resolve to carry on to. victory. •
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 53, 30 August 1940, Page 6
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218A GREAT GIFT FOR GREAT SERVICE Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 53, 30 August 1940, Page 6
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