FOR FIGHTER PLANES
£SOOO EXCEEDED IN NORTH (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WHANGAREI, Monday j The Northern Advocate today fori warded to the Minister of Finance j a cheque for £5.010 10s Bd, repre- ' senting money subscribed by people ! in seven northern counties in response to the fighter plane fund j appeal opened by the With ! exception of several of £SO sub- ! scriptions were almost entirely small j amounts, contributors ranging from j old pensioners to young children, who ! gave voluntarily within a month, j The Minister has been asked to communicate to Lord Beaverbrook, Minj ister of Aircraft Production, the desire of contributors that the Fighter bear the name Northland.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21243, 14 October 1940, Page 6
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