Substantial Gift To Britain Suggested
GESTURE OE LOYALTY AND SUPPORT Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 22. A suggestion tnat, n tae present crisis. New Zealand sdoulcL give a lead to the rest oi* tne British Commonwealth of Nations by making some large gesture of loyalty to and support for Britain was made to-day hy Mr. C. G. White, chairman of directors of Union Airways, Ltd., a director of the Union Steam Ship Company and other leading commercial Institutions, and a well-known solicitor. He suggested that the Dominion should make a gift of, say, £1,000,000 to the British Government for war purposes, in the same way that she gave the dreadnought New Zealand to Britain when Sir Joseph Ward was Prime Minister.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 121, 23 May 1940, Page 6
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