GIFT FOR FIGHTER.
FIJI RESIDENT’S GENEROSITY
SUVA, Sept. 30. Mr Samuel Howard Ellis has received the following message from Lord BeaVerbrook : “From across the world you have
sent a message of the highest encouragement to the Air Force, the men ' and women of the aircraft industry, and all who to day stand in Britain in the front line of the battle. To you and your wife I send an expression of heartfelt gratitude for the gift you have sent me for the purchase of a Hurricane fighter. Y'ou strengthen the power of the Empire and "stand forth among the Empire’s foremost champions.” . , , , The message Mr Ellis . telegraphed Lord Beaverbrook was as follows: “My wife and .1 have cabled you £SOOO to purchase a. Hurricane. May the name be “Spirit of the Royal Flying Corps’ ? That spirit lives on vital and ardent in to-day’s airmen, who accomplish so brilliantly their more arduous and hence more glorious task. You may care to know Fiji sent five airmen in 1914, of whom two are now again serving in the Empire air scheme. Twenty-two from Fiji have already joined the scheme, and others hope to follow.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 260, 1 October 1940, Page 8
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192GIFT FOR FIGHTER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 260, 1 October 1940, Page 8
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