150,000-Dollar Gift for Hospital
RUGBY, Dec. 20. A munificent gift by a citizen of Toronto lias enabled Canada to meet the cost of its first war hospital being erected in Buckinghamshire, Hearing that 150,000 dollars would provide tho 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 805,000 dollars have been raised in the first fortnight of a Dominion-wide campaign to provide 3,000,000 dollars for Red Cross work. By the end of last month the fund, which was inaugurated on November 12, had already reached 2,988,799 dollars.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 303, 23 December 1939, Page 4
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