AEROPLANE FUND

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23748, 30 August 1940, Page 8

AEROPLANE FUND

TOTAL OVER £25,000 , GIFTS FROM ALL QUARTERS HERALD READERS' LIST Farther donations, large and small, yesterday carried the Herald Readers' Aeroplane Fund past the £25,000. mark, with one day left before the completion of its first fortnight. Included in yesterday's total of just under £2056 is a donation of £IOOO from the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board. The other contributions, as on previous days, were sent in by public bodies, business houses and private citizens in ail parts of the province. One sum of £SO was from an Indian deputy-inspector-general of police, now on a visit to New Zealand. Accompanying a cheque for £lO was a note proffering "congratulations on the great success," and another donor of the same amount carefully safeguarded his anonymity, by sending banknotes in an envelope with ail unsigned typewritten missive asking that the sum be credited to "Cash." A letter received yesterday from Great Barrier Island stated that subscription lists were in circulation there, but added: "As the homes are very scattered and the mails are only weekly, we hope to forward to you by next mail the Great Barrier Island residents' donation." Information was also received that the shareholders in a country saleyards company, at their annual meeting, had resolved not to declare a dividend, but to contribute an equivalent sum to the fund. Subscriptions of any amount may be forwarded by post or paid direct at the .Herald Office. Those of 10s and over will be acknowledged individually in the columns of the Herald, and smaller amounts will be recorded on the list exhibited in the public office in Queen Street. The following further contributions are acknowledged:— £ . s d Previously Acknowledged . . 22,070 010 Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board 1000 O O Wilsons (N.Z.) Portland Cement, Limited . . ... • • 200 O O The Misses Soutcr .. .. 100 0 O Hcards, Ltd. .. .. • • 0 H. C. Hunt, India . . .. oU O O Xorthcotc Borough Council .. 50 0 O John Chambers and Son Ltd. (Auckland branch) . . . 50 0 0 N.Z. Forest Products, Ltd. .. 50 0 0 A. B. Sturtevant .. .. 25 0 0 Mary McLennan . . . . 25 0 0 Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Roberton 2ii 0 » Mr. and Mrs. H. Owers .. 20 0 0 TJeslau Frocks, Ltd. ... 15 15 0 "Cash" . .. . . . •. . .15 0 0 Shearer. Prothcro and Shearer 10 10 0 H. B. Sorby .. .... 10 10 0 H. A. Adams .. . • .. 10 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Asniuss . . 10 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Price .. 10 10 0 J. Richardson and Son . . 10 10 0 Dr. and Mrs. J. H. H. Wood 10 10 0 Drs. Allan and . Margaret Knight . . . • 10 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. J. Torrance .. 10 10 0 Lcs. Waugh . . . . • • 10 0 0 Kelsall's Cash Drapery, Onehunga .. .. •• 10 0 01 Misses Gillibrand, 'Northcoie 10 0 0 S. W. H. Chambers .. .. 10 0 0 R. Warnock .. •. 10 0 0 H. and M. Paterson .. .. 10 0 0 Gartincabei .. .. .. 10 0 0 W. Batty 10 O 0 Reslau Frocks, Ltd., Staff, £7 10s; Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Arthur, £6 6s. H.G.K.K., Mr. and Mrs. A. S. TV lcksteedr Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Saunders, W.S.M., A.M.S., Mrs. Elsie Richmond, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Evles, Dr. and Mrs. J. McMurray Cole, Mr. and Mrs. A. Willis. Mr. and. Mrs. A. I'. G. Fogerty,' United Service Lodge, each £5 ss. "Beardon," Mrs. C. McCauley, LieutenantColonel and Mrs. K. B. Tennent, Fremlin Family, Avondale; Alexander Campbell, each £5. Auckland Lyric Male Quartette, £4 4s; Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hindman, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Skelton, each £3 3s; Mr. and Mrs. Eric D. Pritchard, Arthur Craven, E.8.D., each £3. J. S. Hooker family, £2 10s; T.C.. Mr. and Mrs J. A. Gray. Mabel E G. Martin, each £2 2s; M.E.F., C.A.W., M.T.W., Anonymous, each £2. Makctu Public School children, £1 10s; Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Gummer, Mr. and Mrs. :H. F. Coddington, Mrs. S. Heap, Anonymous, A.M.F.. Miss V. Shalders,; Mr. A. B. Shalders, M.P.-8.J., A.C.S., "Well Wisher, each £ 1 Is. J. McNeal, Mrs. Henry Rivers, M. 17, L.A.J., Te Awamutu: W.A.C., Maketu; H.E.H., Four Waiuku-ites, E. Rutledge, Rev. B. D. O. Coleman, N. 8., J. and M. Evans, each £l. S.A.S.. W.E.H., Betty and John, Anonymous, Glenmarlin. C.A.L., M.W., D.A., Mr. George Couttes, Hikurangi, each 10s. Miscellaneous amounts, 7s 6d. Total, £25,026 Os -Id. £30,000 DONATION MEAT PRODUCERS' BOARD UNANIMOUS DECISION SPHERE OF SERVICE DEFERRED £by telegraph—press association] ; WELLINGTON, Thursday : A unanimous decision to donate £30,000 of the accumulated funds for the purchase of aeroplanes as a gesture of . appreciation of the services of the Royal Air Force was reached at the annual meeting of the electoral committee of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board to-day. The question of whore the aeroplanes should serve is to be left to the Moat Board in collaboration with the New Zealand and Imperial authorities. SAMOAN NATIVES' GIFT •£IOO FOR LOCAL EFFORT [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Thursday Information lias been received by radio-telegraph from the Administrator of Western Samoa that the natives of Fakaofu, in the Tokelau group, have presented £IOO to the Sainoan war effort to assist in • purchasing an aeroplane. MORE EMPIRE GIFTS BRITISHERS IN CHILE (Received August 29, 6.15 p.m.) British Wireless LONDON, August 28 Among the gifts received by the Minister of Aircraft Production, Lord Beaverbrook, is one of £SO from the British community in Magallanes, Chile. The newspaper Cyprus Post has collected a further sum of £ISOO, making* a total of £4OOO, for the purchase of a fighter aeroplane.