£l00,000 GIFT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24403, 14 September 1940, Page 10

£loo,ooo GIFT

NEW ZEALAND AID LONDON DISTRESS FUND GESTURE OF ADMIRATION (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 13. An announcement that the Government has sanctioned the immediate transmission .of £IOO,OOO, New Zealand currency, to the Lord Mayor of London's fund for the relief of distress caused by the German air raids was made to-night by the Governor-General (Viscount Galway) as chairman of the National Patriotic Fund Board.

In a statement. Lord Galway said it had been decided to make the grant in recognition and admiration of the wonderful courage and fortitude of the people of London during the most difficult times through which they were now passing. This finance would be provided by the National Patriotic Fund Board through its Dominion-wide organisation. Details of the allocation among the constituent patriotic authorities of the board were now being arranged, but in order that New Zealand should make its gesture at once the Standing Committee of the National Patriotic Fund Board had approved of the gift of £IOO,OOO. The gift includes £IO,OOO from the Sick, Wounded and Distress Fund, made available by the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society to-day. A meeting of the Joint Council was presided over by Sir James Elliott, and it was unanimously agreed to make immediate provision for £IO,OOO to be transmitted to the joint war organisation of the Red Cross and the Order of St. John, London, to be utilised in the relief of distress arising from air raids.