DEBT TO SEAMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 230, 27 September 1940, Page 8

DEBT TO SEAMEN.

ALLOCATION FROM' FUND.

£20,000 FOR WAR WORK.

WELLINGTON, Thursday. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Sheepowners' Acknowledgment •! Debt to British Seamen Fund was hell to-day. The managing trustee. Mr. T. R. Lee*, said there had been an accretion of £108.243, and it had been decided to allocate £20,000 of the present funds to work in connection with the present war. It might be possible to double the allocation after all claims from the previous war had been met. Requests had been sent out to all contributors and 230 approvals had been received, showing that probably consent would be unanimous. Later on it would be necessary to contribute especially for a fund for survivors of the present war. The approval of the' National Patriotic Board would be necessary. Mr. Edward Newman was re-elected chairman.—(Press Assn.)

SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. f

WAIPAWA PILOT-OFFICER.

SERGEANT MISSING.

WELLINGTON, this day. The following Air Force casualties were announced to-day: Pilot-Officer John Gordon Pattison. seriously wounded in air operations, admitted to hospital and placed on the dangerouslv ill list. His father is Mr. G. Pattison* of Waipawa.

Sergeant Lindsay Dou«las Anderson, missing in air operations His mother is Mrs. S. M. McLean, of Wellington— (Press Assn.)