GENUINE SACRIFICE.
OLD MAN S GIFT. BIGGEST EVENT OF MY LIFE. (Electric Telegraph.—Copyright). LONDON, February 27. An extraordinary story of the self-sacrifice of a city caretaker, aged SO years, is behind a gift of £IOO to St. Mark’s Hospital for cancer. The donor asked jiermission to be present at the Board meeting. He walked in holding a new Bank of England note and refused to give his name. Handing the note to the secretary. he said: “It lias taken me 20 years to save this. The hospital saved my life, and I’ve been putting pennies away ever since. 1 kept a special little box, which I did not touch for a year. I would then count the money and bank it. You cannot imagine my joy when I found the whole £IOO. It is the biggest event of my life. My wife did not know until last night.”—(A. & N.Z.)
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue 67, 1 March 1926, Page 3
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149GENUINE SACRIFICE. Waipawa Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue 67, 1 March 1926, Page 3
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