GREAT WAR GIFTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 183, 16 June 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

GREAT WAR GIFTS.

King George's magnificent gifi of another striking- illustration of the wonderful generosity wlrch lias been displayed since the v.ir l-egan bv every' class of the community. both a* home and abroad. It is estimated that no: far short, of £50.000.000 has been contributed, by rieh and poor 1 ike. to the funds raised for various necessary purposes. Pevn million pennies, many contributed b> children, were collected loi* the Re I Cross, £25,000 being also given bv a single doner to the Hospital Fund.^ Australia's gifts amounted to £d a head of t!.o population tpraricpiiv £5.000,o(i0 i, while in Canada one province alone i Ontario) collected £2oo.Ovio for the British Reu Cross in a. single day. Canada's greatest patriotic g'ft. however 'was £7.000,000 which she offered four years ago "for the building of three of the largest and strongest ships of war which science could build and money supply." which were offered to King George byl- the C'anadina 'people "as a token of their determination to maintain the integrity of the Empi'.e." This gift, : t might be nientione.i, was the outcome of the expansion of the German navy.

King George's special gilt is no' v,'l!hoiu parallel. Nearly one hundred years ago Llie Prince Regent gave £.",0,00(i to the Exchequer, when isfforts were being made to raise money to wipe off the exnens.es incurred in the Napoleonic wars