AEROPLANE FUND

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 5 December 1940, Page 6

AEROPLANE FUND

PURCHASE OF FIGHTER PLANES OVER £145.000 COLLECTED [United Press Association] WELLINGTON, This Day. Mr Fraser announced to-day that the total so far received as subscriptions tc the Aeroplane Fund for Britain amounted to £145.607 5s sd. contributed as follows (to the nearest pound) :

Southland .... 21.000 A iotal of £102.940 8s sd. In addition to district collections the following suns have been forwarded direct to the Government of New Zealand • Cooperative Dairy Coy.. £7500: Women's D vision of the Farmers’ Union, £5008; New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, £30.000; European and native residents at Niue Island. £l5B 17s; total. £42.666 At the request of the Mayor ol Dunedin the collections in Otago had been deferred, but were now being made. f lhe appeal generally was launched n ’he basis of £IOO.OOO in New Zealand currency to be donated lor the purchase of fighter planes; any balance oyer this sum to go towards training pilots under the Empire Air Scheme in Canada, or the purchase of war in icbines lor the defence of New Zealand The Government had now decided to donate the whole amount to the purchase of fighter planes, having regard to district collections and the amount contributed by the Meat Board a request was being made for the purchase of 23 planes, representing £145.000 already collected as follows: Northland 1, Auckland 5. Waikato 1, Taranaki 1 Hawkes Bay 2. Wellington 3. Marl borough-West i and-Nelson 1 Ca or terbury 2. Southland 3

Northland £ 5.010 Auckland 30.599 Taranaki 4.625 Marlborough .. .. 1.298 Westland Otago 529