NATIONAL GIFTS
DUKE OF KENT’S WEDDING.
TREAT FOR CHILDREN.
(British Official Wireless.) Rugby, November 3,
The Duke of Kent and Princess Marina have decided that all national wedding gifts to be presented to them shall be used for providing a Christmas treat for necessitous children and the provision of holidays for convalescent sick children of the unemployed. _ A gift is being arranged by a committee of nine Georges who in a letter to the public state that although a Royal Dukedom had recently been conferred upon him, it is as Prince George that the bridegroom is generally known, and they feel that the nation’s sentiments of respect and admiration to be expressed by tbis wedding gift to the Royal couple should be organized by the Georges throughout the country. The signatories include, Mr George Ferguson, High Commissioner for Canada, Mr George Lansbury, leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, Mr George Arliss, the actor, Mr George Drummond, the banker, and the Duke of Sutherland, who is chairman of the qommittee, and other Georges who are prominent in different walks of life.
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Southland Times, Issue 22471, 6 November 1934, Page 7
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180NATIONAL GIFTS Southland Times, Issue 22471, 6 November 1934, Page 7
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