VISITOR’S CHEQUE
SICK AND WOUNDED FUND (By Teleg-raph.—special to Times) WELLINGTON, Thursday A visitor from Hong Kong has given £IOOO to the Sick, Wounded, and Distress Fund. He is Mr S. T. Williamson, a New Zealander, who has been in business in Hong Kong for a number of years. Mr Williamson expressed a desire to hear something of the efforts of the National Patriotic Fund Board, and after he had been given an outline of these by the board’s secretary, Mr G. A. Hayden, he said he would like to make . a contribution. He handed Mr Hayden a cheque for £IOOO which he said he desired-to go to the Sick, Wounded, and Distress Fund. Mr Williamson was much impressed with the assistance given by New Zealand to the British Red Cross Society.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21157, 5 July 1940, Page 9
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