GENEROUS GIFTS.
‘FOR WAR FUND. (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 4. The Colonial Secretary’ has sent his thanks to two French nationals in the New Hebrides, a wireless operator and a planter who sent contributions to the war effort..
Sierra Leone is to have a British bomber named after it, the Governor having sent £20,000 as a result of a general appeal for the bomber fund. The unfederated Malay State of Trengganu has sent 50,000 Straits Settlements dollars towards the prosecution of the war.
A 10-year-old boy. C. Hadland, and friends at Hornchurch (Essex) have sent the Minister of Aircraft Production 12s collected from admission to their war museum.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 264, 5 October 1940, Page 7
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112GENEROUS GIFTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 264, 5 October 1940, Page 7
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