PATRIOTIC ACTION
YEAR’S SALARY OF £5OOO FOR WAR FUND By Tplegraph Press Association WELLINGTON, December 14. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage), said that Mr I. Lefeaux, Governor of the Reserve Bank, had announced to the Government his desire that the last year of his term of office should be regarded as a voluntary contribution to the national war effort and that his service for that period should be without, salary, if hostilities continued until the end of 1940. In expressing appreciation of Mr Lefeaux’s generosity, Mr Savage said that personally, with the Government, he looked forward to a year of coop “alive effort between the bank and the Government to overcome the financial difficulties which had been so much accentuated by the war.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21528, 15 December 1939, Page 6
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127PATRIOTIC ACTION Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21528, 15 December 1939, Page 6
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