OFFERING £40,000 GIFT
“SHAMEFUL CUT IN DEFENCE” LADY HOUSTON’S DONATIONS FORMER £200,000 REFUSED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. LONDON, July 28. Lady Houston has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer as follows : “Your regrettable refusal of the £200,000 I offered to lessen the shameful cut in Britain’s defences has decided me to send a smallei sum of £40,000 which is the amount of. income tax which would be due if I were domiciled in England instead of Jersey. I hope .you will not be too proud to accept it.”
Recentlv Lladv . Houston made ari offer of £200,000 to the Government on condition that it should he spent on the navy, The offer was refused on the ground that expenditure on armaments was a matter of parliamentary policy and sums could not be earmarked for any .specific purposes.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 29 July 1932, Page 5
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