AMERICAN FUND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 223, 19 September 1940, Page 6

AMERICAN FUND.

ANZAC WAR RELIEF.

GOOD WORK IN PROGRESS.

Some details of the work of the Anzac Wer Relief Fund of New York are contained in a letter received by Mr. R, S. Little, of Auckland, from a business friend, Mr.« Alfred H. Benjamin, of New York, a member of the committee of the fund.

"We are glad," states Mr. Benjamin, "that the committee is able to do someUiintj for New Zealand. Since last ■writing you the Ethyl Gasoline Company has given us 1000 dollars towards our fund, and several other contributions have been made. Only recently I received a letter from members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in' London asking for some cigarettes. I have recommended that 50,000 be shipped immediately. ■

"They have also asked if we can possibly send an ambulance for the New Zealand Number One General Hospital. We are doing our utmost to get one at the'earliest possible moment. "As you can quite realise, all the Americans are the British as well

as the Australian and New Zealand soldiers wherever they may be, and I think it is only a question of time when the British will win, but the sacrifices are going to be tremendous. I have had news from London, and the R.A.F. are. doing a wonderful job. Mr. K. S. Forsyth writes me to say that they are miles ahead of the Germans in efficiency, and I am sure the latter won't catoh up with them, although he states that numerically the Germans are in the lead. But I don't think that we will see the end of this war before 1941 —and possibly 1942.

'"We are all working for the cause, and if the men are willing to give their blood we should give our support in every other possible way, and that is the purpose of this organisation. I was chairman of a similar organisation in 1914, but we have a bigger job on our hands now than we had then, due to the fact that the people to-day haven't got the .money they had in 1914-15, and it was much easier to get 1000 dollars then than it is to get 20 dollars now. However, you can tell the people of New Zealand that the United States is 100 per cent behind Britain, and we think, were it not for the 'election, we would give a great deal more aid than we are doing now."