AN APPEAL
SIMPLE, HOMELY FURNITURE NEEDED. “American-born Lady Astor, Mayoress of bomb-shattered Plymouth, has appealed to United States and Canadian women to collect ‘simple, homely furniture’ to send to Britain after the war. ‘You can hardly believe howdifficult it is to get furniture,’ she said. ‘I have been trying to get just a bed, a kitchen table, two armchairs and a cupboard for an old couple who lost everything in the world when they were bombed out of their home. They can get a little room, but they have no furniture to put in it. Local authorities are doing everything they can, but the task is colossal. If the women of America will help they will be doing something that will ever live in the memory of the women of Britain. It is no use sending furniture until the war is over because, even if it were possible, a great deal of it would probably be destroyed.”—New York “Times” London correspondent.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4462, 11 August 1941, Page 3
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161AN APPEAL Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4462, 11 August 1941, Page 3
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