SHEEP FARMERS’ GIFT TO SOLDIERS.
"Wo notice that, the imperial Goverument: is giving us wool-growers a big advance on pre-war rates. That extra money does not belong lo ns hut to the hoys who are. lighting- for as." An expression of this sentiment, together with a, cheque for .Cl,IM)(), has been forwarded to Mr E. C. Drowned, National Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, by a well-known family of wool-growers in response to the appeal for funds for the purchase of comforts for the soldiers at the front. The writers ask the Y.M.C.A. to distribute the money in the shape of emu forts as it lias been doing in the past. "The cheque represents our estimated war prolits mi wool this year,” the, writers conclude, "and. we hope there will be a further sum available for you after the sale of the clip.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1647, 7 December 1916, Page 3
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144SHEEP FARMERS’ GIFT TO SOLDIERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1647, 7 December 1916, Page 3
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