JAP. DONATION TO POOR
TOKIO, Nov. 1. The multi-millionaire house of Mitsui, the Japanese banking family, today announced the establishment of the 30,000,000 yen Mitsui Foundation to relieve peasant distress. (At curront exchange rates 30,000,000 yen is about £1,705,200.) Believed to be the largest private benefaction in the history of Japan, funds will be allotted to organisations working to ameliorate the poverty of farmers and fishermen and to scientific and industrial research groups for tho same purposes.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18264, 6 December 1933, Page 7
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