ANZAC FUND IN NEW YORK

Evening Star, Issue 23685, 19 September 1940, Page 8

ANZAC FUND IN NEW YORK

RELIEF GRANTS FORWARDED 100 PER CENT. BEHIND BRITAIN SURE OF HER VICTORY (Per United Pkess Association.] AUCKLAND, September 19. " We are glad that the committed was able to do, something for New; Zealand,” writes Mr Alfred H. Banjamin, a member of the Anzac War Fund Relief Committee in New York* to Mr R. S. Little, an Auckland business friend. “ Since writing you the Ethyl-gaso-line Company has - given l,ooodoj to the fund, and several other contributions have been made. I recently received a letter from members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in London asking for cigarettes. I have recommended that 50.000 be shipped immediately. They also ask if we can send an ambulance for the New Zealand No. 1 General Hospital. We a re-doing our utmost to comply at the earliest possible moment. ' „ "As you can quite realiso, Americans are behind the British as well as the Australian and New Zealand soldiers, wherever they may be, and I think it is only a matter of time when the British will win; but the sacrifices are going to be tremendous. Mr R. S. Forsyth writes to me from London to say that the R.A.F. is mile* ahead of the Germans in efficiency, although numerically the German* are in the lead. We are all working for the cause, and if men are willing to give their blood we should give support in every possible way. “ We have a bigger job on our hands here than in 1914. because people today haven’t got the money they had then. It was much easier then to get l,ooodol than J2odol now. However, you can tell the people of New Zealand that the United States is 100 per cent, behind Britain, and we _ think that, were it not for the election here, wo would give a great deal more than wo are doing now.”