GIFT TO LONDON

Evening Star, Issue 23681, 14 September 1940, Page 10

GIFT TO LONDON

PROVINCIAL PATRIOTIC COUNCIL FIND PORTION GENERAL FUND CAMPAIGN £1.000,01111 AIMED FOB [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 14. Mr Hayden, secretary of the National Patriotic Board, explains that a proportion of the £IOO,OOO for the relief of London distress is to be found by the provincial patriotic councils. Concurrently with the intensification of the bombing of London, the patriotic councils had completed arrangements for launching a Dominion campaign for funds for all patriotic purposes, including the rehabilitation of ail branches of the armed forces, the provision of relief for them and their dependents, and , also comforts and other needs. An objective of £1,000,000 had been fixed, and October 14 had been nominated as the starting date of

this campaign. In view of the decision to make New Zealand’s gesture to the London people an immediate one, and to allow of allocations by provincial patriotic councils to the sum being sent to London to be recouped, the provincial campaign virtually started to-day. The public, therefore, in contributing to the provincial funds, will be giving to an outstanding objective among many worthy aims, because relief for the London people is now automatically one of the responsibilities of the provincial funds.