MUNIFICENT GIFT
WAR HOSPITAL COST UNNAMED CANADIAN RED CROSS EFFORT (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Dec. 20. A munificent gift by a citizen of Toronto has enabled Canada to meet the cost of its first war hospital, which is being erected in Buckinghamshire. Hearing that £37,500 would provide the entire cost, this private citizen, who remains anonymous, sent a cheque for the whole amount. The gift was made to the Toronto branch of the Red Cross Society, where £201,222 was raised in the first fortnight of a Dominion-wide campaign to provide £750,000 for Red Cross work. By the end of. last month the fund, which was inaugurated on November 12, had already reached £747,199.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20127, 22 December 1939, Page 7
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116MUNIFICENT GIFT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20127, 22 December 1939, Page 7
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