GRANT FOR RELIEF IN BRITAIN
Patriotic Fund Board Votes £lOO,OOO (P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 18. The National Patriotic Fund Board at its meeting to-day decided to make another grant of £2OOO to the Malta Relief Fund. A similar sum was contributed earlier to the year and was acknowledged by the Governor of Malta who sent a cable message on behalf of the people of the island expressing warmest gratitude for the gift. The meeting, over which the Gover-nor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, presided, also approved a further contribution of £lOO,OOO towards relief in Britain, a contribution that was recommended by the recent conference of patriotic bodies.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21993, 19 June 1941, Page 2
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104GRANT FOR RELIEF IN BRITAIN Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21993, 19 June 1941, Page 2
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