GIFTS FOR ARMY
GENEROUS AUSTRALIANS One hundred and fourteen gifts of £SOO each for the specific purpose of buying motor ambulances have been made to the Australian Army. This total of £57,000 comprised innumerable small contributions, and the proceeds of patriotic functions. Other notable gifts recently received include 730,000 one-pound tins of tomato soup,-donated by Messrs Gordon Edged and Sons Ltd., of Bathurst; and a crop of potatoes worth more than £7O, by Mr A. E. Minchinton, of Weaproinah (Victoria). An offer has also been made by Mr M. H. Byrne, (among other graziers, at Julia Creek (Queensland), to donate 500 fat wethers The appeal for prismatic binoculars and prismatic compasses for the Australian Army has yielded more than 1.630 pairs of prismatic binoculars and nearly 500 prismatic compasses.
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Evening Star, Issue 23692, 27 September 1940, Page 10
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129GIFTS FOR ARMY Evening Star, Issue 23692, 27 September 1940, Page 10
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