PAY FOR SOLDIERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 January 1940, Page 4

PAY FOR SOLDIERS

FREE OF EXCHANGE [United Press Association] AUCKLAND, 9th January. Actual pay drawn overseas by soldiers of the New Zealand Second Division will be free of exchange, according to a statement by the Minister of Defence. Mr Jones, last night. He said that a statement which he had made in the House of Representatives on 28th September on these lines still applied. PATRIOTIC SEALS AN EXAMPLE OF SYSTEMATIC GIVING [United Press Association] WELLINGTON. This Day. The principal of a girls’ secondary school has given others a very fine lead in systematic giving to the national patriotic fund. Recently Mr G. A. Hayden, secretary-treasurer of the National Patriotic Fund Board, received from her a cheque of £1 11s. representing her contribution at Is a day for December. Accompanying the cheque was a letter, in which the principal intimated that she proposed making similar regular contributions each month and suggested that others might feel disposed to do likewise. The principal asked that her name be not published. She wrote: “I have been wondering how much ready money I can afford to send to the fund and have come to the conclusion that 1 can estimate my resources most easily in terms of so much a month. I imagine, too, that there are others placed as I am with a regular monthly cheque and that it might be acceptable to the board to have a portion of each cheque coming in regularly each month. As long as my circumstances and my liabilities remain as they are at present' I can gladly offer Is a day, ir addition to anything I may use in seals or in special gifts. I am, therefore, enclosing a cheque for £1 11s out of my December cheque and hope to send similar cheques at the end of tach month as long as your board is asking for funds.” VERY FINE GESTURE Mr Hayden said that he had sent a letter to the principal thanking her on behalf of the board. The principal's gesture, he said, was very fine, and it was greatly appreciated.