APPEAL FOR £1,000,000.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 5

APPEAL FOR £1,000,000.

MR. J. ABEL ORGANISER. PURPOSE OF CAMPAIGN. WELLINGTON", Friday. The secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board, Mr. (J. A. Hayden. announced to-day that Mr. J. Abel, of Wellington, had been appointed honorary organiser of the Dominion-wide campaign by Provincial Patriotic Councils to raise £1.000,000. He said Mr. Abel had offered his services in this capacity, and they had been accepted with appreciation. The campaign lias begun witli an appeal for funds for tlie relief of victims of German air raids on London, and will continue for the purpose of raiding funds to give assistance when required to the United Kingdom and the British Empire overseas, and to provide comforts for New Zealand troops overseas and within New Zealand, as well as to enable provision to be made for the rehabilitation of men and assistance to their dependents. Mr. Hayden referred to the success Mr. Abel had achieved ;ts honorary organWr of the appeal conducted by the Joint Council of the Order of St. •'ohn and the Red Cross Societv for funds for the sick, wounded and distressed. More than £.">BO.OOO had been raised b,7 this campaign.— (Press Assn.)