GENEROUS GIFT.
CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN BRITAIN. (British Official AVireles.s) RUGBY, Oct. 26. Another munificent gift for charitable purposes ' is announced to-day, an anonymous philanthropist having executed a deed of gift of approximately £150,000 in favour of the British Humane Association. The deed of gift will come into operation after his death. The same benefactor has subscribed £SOOO to a communal service for the use of the Guild of Freemen of the City of London on condition that the guild subscribe an equal sum to the British Humane Association. A similar arrangement has been made with the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, the object being that the association shall continue in perpetuity to be dominated by the ideals set out in Rotary, of which the donor is a member.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 284, 29 October 1928, Page 7
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129GENEROUS GIFT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 284, 29 October 1928, Page 7
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