PROFIT FROM WOOL
4 P.M. EDITION
APPEAL TO BAWRA SHAREHOLDERS. HELP FOR SOLDIERS’ CHILDREN. NEW ZEALAND AID RECALLED. (By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright.) Received August 15, 12.10 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 14. Lord Galway, chairman of the Big Brother movement, has written to Sir John Higgins appealing to tho shareholders of Bawra for a donation 10 shillings per cent., totalling £175,000, to help to send to Australia, in the first instance, ex-service men’s children and, in the second instance, potential farming settlers. The letter points out that the Bawra shareholders received £200,000,000, of which £35.000.000 represent surpluses above the war prices ol wool. It- points out that New Zealand wool growers donated £210.000 ot their war profits for the benefit ot the children of mercantile marine suiferers. . . ~ Similar contributions from tne Bawra" shareholders would exceed £4,000,000.— A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 220, 15 August 1927, Page 2
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