DEEPLY MOVED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 9

DEEPLY MOVED.

AIRCRAFT MINISTER. £10,000 For Spitfires From Durham Miners. (Reed, noon.) RUGBY. Sept. 20. Gratefully acknowledging a fine gift from the Durham jilmers' Association of £10,000 for the purchase °f two Spitfires. Ix>rd Beaverbrook, , Minister of Aircraft Production, wrote:—

*"I have received in the past week* many generous contribution* from abroad and from al3 sections of the community at home towards the cost of newaircraft, but none nas moved me more deeply nor given me such immense encouragement as the donation vou sent on behalf of the Durham Miners' Association.

"Prom members of an industry "which has known cruel hardship in the past ha» come a gift so generous that it must kindle the imagination of freedomloving men and women the world over, giving them irrefutable proof of our determination to gain total victory OTcr our enemies."

Hie Governor of Kenya Las gratefully accepted an offer by "five local native councils in the Central Province of £10,095 from the reserve fund as a contribution from the Kikuyu, Kamba and Meru tribes towards tl»e purchase of aircraft to be named "Kikuyu Kamln Meru."

The NawaH of Bahawalpur has given £7500 toward* the purchase of aircraft. Lord Beaveruiwk aeknowlfdgi-s £IS7 towards the pun-ha-e nf ar'-raft from the British, French. P">rtu_rue-j« and Peruvian residents of I<ju:to- c-n ili-o I'iver Amazon, in Pern. A message w:i = ic,l toT.ii'ht by Lord Beaverlipxik in ih- p.i r "rganisatiou of hi- indui-trv :n nhich he cives the highe-t praVe f>>r tlvir n Munificent work nislit and <!:iy. tlfir indii?Vrcn<"e to air raid-. tln-:r maint"f milput i:i the fa'-.- and thfir dwindling «»I tune «'iit in -he iters. For tb«* week elided It. declared Lord Beaverbrook. the output of their repair jons in operational type? .lii.-rnft — Vimbers and tighter-—was i e\**es.s **i .til l<«st i.r destroyed in and accidents.