FOOD FOR BRITAIN
BAY OF PLENTY DONATION A recent letter from the Waikato Centre received by the Whakatane Branch of the Red Cross Society indicated that 1 ton of fat, valued at£4o, 10 cases of 'toilet soap, valued at £lO 15s, and 20 cases of honey, .valued at £SO, had been purchased 'and despatched to Britain by the S.S. Cornwall which sailed on September 25. The commodities were forwarded as a gift from the Eastern Bay of Plenty Centre. The food, it was intimated, would be distributed to orphanges, hospitals, sick persons, and old people etc., without the surrender of coupons. The money which was forwarded recently from the . Eastern Bay Centre, amounted to £IOO, and the Red Cross Society intend holding another appeal shortly for the same fund.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 39, 18 October 1946, Page 4
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129FOOD FOR BRITAIN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 39, 18 October 1946, Page 4
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