AIR RAID DISTRESS
FUNDS FOR RELIEF CONTRIBUTIONS POURING IN 'British Official Wireless) (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) RUGBY, Sept. 16. Large gifts from all over the world continue to be sent to the Lord Mayor's London air .raid, distress fund. ; ' ; '". '■ ; ■' !.'•'••''
The Governor-General of New Zealand has telegraphed £IOO,OOO from the patriotic funds; £SOOO has been sent from the British colony at Buenos Aires; £ 1000 comes from the Maharaja of Durbhanga; Brisbane has cabled another £25*000; the Governor of the United Provinces has sent a lakh (100,000) of rupees; and the British war relief organisation in New York £SOOO. The fund opened by a Kenya newspaper already amounts to over £BOO.
At a meeting of the executive of the Air Raid Distress Fund, large grants were made to meet the needs of the afflicted boroughs. In one case £SOOO was given.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24406, 18 September 1940, Page 6
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141AIR RAID DISTRESS Otago Daily Times, Issue 24406, 18 September 1940, Page 6
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