MAYOR’S THANKS
OLD PEOPLE’S PARCELS “While this addition to rations is, of course, most welcome, I feel that much of the pleasure is derived through the fact that the people ot the Dominions have had such a friendly feeling for the Old Country ind have given expression to this feeling in such a practical way,” states a letter from Aiderman A. E. Smith. J.P., Mayor of the metropolitan Borough of Islington, to Miss M. Barker, containing his official thanks for the cases of food sent by the Gisborne branch of the Woodford House Old Girls’ Association to his borough. The Mayor stated that his borough lias a population of some 228.000, including many aged people whose income was only the old-age pension and who found that the prices today made it difficult to buy any little extra food. There was also the difflcutly of queues, for when people were 70 years old and more they were not able to wait about in ail kinds of weather, thus the food gifts were all the more valued. A booklet on the history of his borough, with the crest and arms embossed, was included in the letter.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22617, 21 April 1948, Page 4
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194MAYOR’S THANKS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22617, 21 April 1948, Page 4
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