GIFT TO BRITISH BOY SCOUTS
N.Z. THANKED FOR £2009 HOW THE MONEY HAS BEEN USED Imperial headquarter* <»f the Boy Scouts’ Association. London, have written to the New Zealand National Patriotic Fund Board expressing thanks and appreciation for a gift of £2OOO from the people of New Zealand. This sum was allocated to the association from £lOO.OOO sent lo Britain this year for the relief of distress. The letter explains that the money has been placed to the credit of the Association* War District Scout* Fund, established at the outbreak of the war to help Scouts, at home and abroad, who suffer from enemy action. The fund had been a great help to many Scouts who had reached Britain from countries which had been over-run. The association had given assistance to enable them to start their scouting again.
“As regards our own boys.” th*' letter continues, “heavy bombardment. when so many of our cities and towns have suffered has resulted in the loss of a large number of headquarters. much gear and equipment, uniforms and private e!f**l*. Here again we have been able to give much needed help. We have devoted considerable sums to getting boys away from badly blitzed areas, and giving them a week or fortnight's holiday in rest camps, so as lo refresh them for anything that may lie ahead in the coming Ynonths.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 283, 1 December 1941, Page 4
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