PURCHASE OF AIRCRAFT
FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Oct. 6. The Colonial Secretary, Lord Lloyd, sent his thanks to two French nationals in the New Hebrides, a wireless operator and a planter, who had forwarded contributions towards the war effort. Sierra Leone is to have a British bomber named after it, the Governor having sent £20,000 as the result of a general appeal for a bomber fund. The unfederated Malay State of Trengganu has sent 50,000 Straits Settlements dollars towards the prosection of the war. A 10-year-old boy, C. Hadland, and his friends at Hornchurch (Essex) sent the Minister of Aircraft Production 12s collected from admission to their “ war museum.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24423, 8 October 1940, Page 7
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111PURCHASE OF AIRCRAFT Otago Daily Times, Issue 24423, 8 October 1940, Page 7
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