TO BE AUCTIONED

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3155, 10 August 1942, Page 5

TO BE AUCTIONED

BOOK FROM MR CHURCHILL NATIONAL RADIO HOOK-UP MONEY FOR PATRIOTIC FUND “On a date yet to be announced, a valuable book of which Mr Winston Churchill’s ancestor, Sir Winstone Churchill, father of the first Duke of Marlborough, was the author, is to be auctioned over a national radio hook-up in aid of patriotic funds,” states an article from the monthly Bulletin of the National Patriotic Fund Board. The article continues: —

“The book, ‘All the Kings of This Isle,’ was published in 1675. It was presented to the New Zealand Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) by Mi’ Winston Churchill when Mr Fraser was in England last year, and has been autographed by both. “Around this rare volume is built up a collection of other books and. art treasures, which will be put up for auction in separate lots, also in aid of patriotic funds, in the four main centres. “Mr Pat Lawlor, of Wellington, is honorary organiser, and an appeal is being .made to owners of book treasures and other articles of particular cultural value to give them as gifts to assist in the building up of a collection, which, with the Churchill Book, it is hoped will result in a striking contribution being made to the patriotic funds from New Zealand literary, art and cultural circles.

“The appeal is for rare books, rare documents, M.S.S. and autographed letters, pictures and prints, Maori and general curios. “The proceeds of the auctions are to be allocated in the usual proportions among the provincial councils.”