A GENEROUS FARMER
GIFT:TO WAR FUND OF LAND ; -.'VALUED AT £20,000.
' By."Telegraph.—(Spccia-l Correspondent.) Masterton, February 25. Mr. A P. Whatman, of "Abbotsford,!' Masterton, who has already contributed abo;iit ! :£10,000 to the Wounded Soldiers'.''Fund and other patriotic funds, has intimated his intention of handing. Over to , the Wairarapa War Fund. Executive 218 acres of freehold land at.Ahikouka, near Greytown, without any restrictions.
; The land is valued at about £20,000, and is -used' for dairy farming, f ■' Mr.- Whatman is making the gift in 'the' name "of his brother, the late Mr. E. M. D. Whatman.
Ho has also given to the Salvation Army a® large house at Russell, Bay of Islands, which will accommodate about thirty children, to bo used as a home for children of wounded soldiers.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2705, 26 February 1916, Page 6
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127A GENEROUS FARMER Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2705, 26 February 1916, Page 6
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