ARAWAS’ £IOOO GIFT
PATRIOTIC FUNDS GESTURE OF -LOYALTY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. A cheque for £IOOO from the Arawd tribe has been received by the National Patriotic Fund Board id be credited to the quota required to be raised by the Rotorua inter-zone patriotic committee. In handing it over at the last meeting, Major Vercoe, D. 5.0., said that this was a time when the Maori people felt that they should try to do iust a little more than talk about loyalty to the Sovereign King. Though not over-possessed with this world’s good things they would like to feel that they, at any rate, Were trying to pull their weight in this colossal struggle. He explained that the money was part of the revenue from land controlled by the Arawa Trust Board and “we feel that, seeing it comes from the soil of our ancestors, it will be more welcome to you.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20919, 20 October 1942, Page 5
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152ARAWAS’ £1000 GIFT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20919, 20 October 1942, Page 5
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