General Booth, the Salvationist, in conversation with a New Zealand Times reporter, stated that, in the very early days of the war lie obtained from-the British Government 10,000. suits of khaki 'at £1 per sxiit. When the timo came for payment the Chancellor of (he Exclie.ouer (Mr Austen Chamberlain) himself handed a fiTioque for £.10,000 to the General'to pay the Account.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4016, 16 June 1920, Page 2
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