FIGHTER PLANE
GIFT FOR BRITAIN FARMERS RAISING FUND (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, this day. A suggestion, made by a committeeman at the New Zealand Co-opera-tive Dairy Company’s annual smoke concert in Hamilton last evening that suppliers should voluntarily subscribe sufficient funds to purchase a fighter aeroplane for Britain met with spontaneous support and in five minutes over £SOO had been donated. After the fund had been opened with a donation of £5 5s by the chairman. Mr. W. Marshall, the Mayor ot Hamilton, Dr. H. D. Caro, followed with a similar amount. Mr. C. J. Parlane, manager of the company, gave £lO 10s, and the fund received a fiillip when Mr. W. Goodfellow added a cheque for £250. Mr. P. H. Saxton donated £SO, and following a number of spontaneous gifts ranging from £2 2s to £lO 10s an anonymous gift of £SO was handed in. Within five minutes the fund reached £504 4s. The subscription list will remain open at the meeting of the company to-day until sufficient money is subscribed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20328, 17 August 1940, Page 11
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