Replanting Palestine's "Waste Places"
GREAT REAFFORESTATION SCHEME LAUNCHED
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright)
Received Thursday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, July 11
Including £16,000 already collected, £21,000 has now been realised for reafforestation in Palestine, £SOOO of which -was subscribed by guests representing London Jewry at a Guildhall dinner in aid of King George V. Jubilee Forest Fund. Already the Jewish National Fund has acquired 100,000 acres in Palestine and settled. 30,000 Jews on it apart from the regular migration.
Lord Melchett, presiding, aroused cheers when he described Palestine as the potential Singapore of the Near East protected not by English battalions but by 3.000,000 Jews. Sir Herbert Samuel urged the repopulation of Palestine as a sacred dutv.
The King acknowledged the message of loyalty from the guests who cheered the announcement that his Majesty had given the first tree from Windsor Park for planting by the High Commissioner in the autumn.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 July 1935, Page 7
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