HELP FOR BRITAIN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 215, 9 August 1940, Page 7

HELP FOR BRITAIN.

WESTERN SAMOA’S EFFORT. APIA, Auk. 7. A public mooting was hold to consider Western Samoa’s war effort, to hear the report of a committee previously set up, and to elect a permanent committee to continue the efforts to raise £SOOO. In little over a week £673 has been roeeievd, and there are good prospects of securing the full amount. The original committee was re-elected with the addition of. further members, including three leading Samoan high chiefs, Malietoa, Tamasese and Mataafa. The acting-Administrator (Mr A. C. Turnbull) was elected chairman of the committee. Captain H. At. Ruslnvorth, formerly member of Parliament for Bay of Islands, gave an address on his experiences in the Great War and on some aspects of the present war. FROM OTHER PARTS. The Ministry of Aircraft Production has received a gift of £6OO from Mr Norman Biddell, of Brazil, towards the purchase of aircraft. An eminent Brazilian for many years associated with British enterprises as sent £IOOO to the British Treasury as “my war contribution to your great country defending freedom and justice in this world. It is a simple gift and not a subscription to any loan” (states the British Official Wireless.) The Uganda War Fund Committee has sent Britain £22,500 as a first instalment for the purchase of Spitfires or bombers, with the request that the aeroplanes bo named Uganda. The Kenya and Uganda railway and harbour administration has made a loan of a second £IOO,OOO free of interest for the duration of the war. A New York message says Air Albert Deane, secretary of the Anzac AVer Relief Fund, reported that 3000 dollars bad been cabled to the comforts fund at Melbourne and another 1000 dollars would lie sent to the comforts fund at Wellington.