AUSTRALIAN SHEEPFARMERS.
AN APPEAL FOE FUNDS MADE. TO AID MIGRATION* SCHEME. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 1.1.30 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. 14. Lord Galway, chairman of Big Brothers, writing to Sir John Higgins, is appealing to shareholders of the B.A.W.R.A. for a donation of 10s per cent., totalling £175,000, for helping to send to Australia, firstly, ex-service-men’s children, and, secondly, potential farming settlers. The letter -points out that the B.A.W.R.A. shareholders received £200,000,000, of which £35,000,000 represents surpluses above war prices of wool, and another £7,500,000 were distributable. It points out that the New Zealand ■wool growers .donated £210,000 war profits for the benefit of children of the mercantile marine sufferers, and a similar contribution from the B.A.W.R.A. would exceed four millions.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 August 1927, Page 9
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121AUSTRALIAN SHEEPFARMERS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 August 1927, Page 9
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