GIFT FROM ARAWAS

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 248, 21 October 1942, Page 6

GIFT FROM ARAWAS

£1000 FOR FATRIOTIC FUND. FURTHER REMITS OVERSEAS

PA.

WELLINGTON, Oct, 19.

A eheque for £1000 from the Arawa Tribe has been received by the National Fatrictic Fund Board lo be credited to ihe quota required to be rais d bv the Rotorua Inter-zono Patriotic Committee. In handing it over at the last meeting, Major Vercce, D.S.O., said that this was a , time when the Maori people felt they I ehould try to do just a little more than talk about lcyalty to their j Sovereign King. Though not cveri possessing this world's gcod things, they liked to> feel that they were at any rate trying to pull their weighfc in this t-olossal struggle. He explained the money was pare of the revenue frcm land controlled by the Arawa Trust Board and added "We feel that seeing it comes from the soil of cur ancestors, it will be the more welcome to> you " The National Patriotic Fund Board has decided tc remit £6000 to the Polish Red Cioss in England, and also £25,000 to the High. Commissioner for New Zealand in London to provide comforts for Russia, The Hon, Mr Perry said to-day that including these amount.s, the board in 1941 and 1942 has forwardecl approximately £140,000 in cash and goods to a, value of approximately £15,000 overseas for sufferers in blitzed Britain, aird for the suffering Greeks, Polesi, Russians and MaUese. showing Ihe advantage of the All-Purposes Appeal. IT