MONEY FOR AIRCRAFT
TWO RESIDENTS OF FIJI SUVA, Sept. 30 The Minister of Aircraft Production, Lord Beaverbrook, has sent the followijig message to Mr. Samuel Howard Ellis:— "From across the world you have Bent a message of the highest encouragement to the Air Force, men and ■women of the aircraft industry, and all who to-day stand in Britain in the front line of battle. To you and your wife I send an expression of heartfelt gratitude for the gift you se id me for the purchase of a Hurricane fighter. You strengthen the power of the Empire and Btand forth among the Empire's foremost champions." , The message which Mr. Ellis telegraphed to Lord Beaverbrook was as. follows:—"My wife and I have cabled you £SOOO to purchase a Hurricane. May the name be The Spirit of the Royal Flying Corps. That spirit livesi on vital and ardent in to-day's air..men who accomplish so brilliantly their more" arduous, henc. more "glorious, task. You may care cv know that Fiji sent five airmen in 19.'.4, of whom two arc now again serving in the Empire aw scheme. Twenty-two from Fiji have already joined the scheme and other!! hope to follow."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23775, 1 October 1940, Page 8
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