SAVING LIFE AT SEA
, BRITISH LIFEBOAT SERVICES i I ( British Official Wireless. J 1 Received Feb. 24, 5.5 p.m. i RUGBY. Feb. 23. ■ Broadcasting in "the week's ■ good cause," on behalf of the - Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Sir Godfrey Baring, stated that since the outbreak of war, the services had rescued more than 330# lives from the sea. “Though lifeboats, it is said, are ) doing in war, even more than in peace, a great national work, the institution, with the help of British people, is paying for the ‘ whole of that work," he said. “They spent in rewards and othe ■ ' payments to crews about £lOO,OOO ' since the war began. The evacuation from Dunkirk cost them ■ £BOOO and the institution refused i, to let the Government pay any part of that sum.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 47, 25 February 1941, Page 5
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