MONEY FOR FIGHTER PLANES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 6 December 1940, Page 4

MONEY FOR FIGHTER PLANES

VARIOUS DISTRICTS’ CONTRIBUTIONS RESULT OF APPEAL [United Press Association] WELLINGTON, This Day. In announcing yesterday that the receit appeal for funds for the purchase r f fighter aeroplanes realised £145,607, the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, detailed the amounts collected from the various districts as follows:

In addition to the district collections the following sums had been forwarded direct to the Government: New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, £30,000; New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., £7500; Women’s Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, £5008; European and native residents of Niue Island. £l5B 17s; total, £42.666 17s. At the request of the Mayor of Dunedin the collections in Otago had been deferred, but were now being made.

BLOW FOR FREEDOM MESSAGE FROM BEAVERBROOK MAGNIFICENT GESTURE WELLINGTON, This Day. The following message has been received by the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, from the Rt. Hon. Lord Beaverbreok, Minister of Aircraft Production: “Were any fresh evidence necessary of the utter devotion of the people of your Dominion to the Empire’s cause it would be overwhelmingly provided by the contribution sent to me by your High Commissioner in London for the purchase of fighter aircraft. Our hearts are uplifted, our spirits fortified, by this magnificent gesture of support. You enable us to strike ever harder blows at the evil forces of Nazis and Fascist aggression, bringing nearer the day when the hosts of Hitler and his Italian jackal will for ever bite the dust. In sending to the Dominion of New Zealand this expression of my heartfelt gratitude and thanks I know I speak for the whole British nation and indeed for all in every land who love freedom.” GIFTS FROM BRITONS IN ARGENTINA [British Official Wireless] RUGBY. 4th December. Following their gift of four Spitfires in September, tjie British community in Argentina has sent £25,000 to buy aircraft for the Fleet Air Arm. Acknowledging the gift, the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Minister of Aircraft paid. “It will give the world the most splendid proof of the determination of the British people.”

£ s. d. Northland 5.010 10 8 Auckland 39.599 8 8 Taranaki 4.625 6 4 Hawkes Bay ... 6.050 17 7 Canterbury G.823 1 1 Wellington 15,662 7 8 Nelson 1.592 8 6 Marlborough ... 1.298 15 3 Westland 747 15 8 Otago 529 17 0 Southland 21,000 0 0 Total .... £102,940 8 5