ASSISTANCE FOR LONDON

Southland Times, Issue 24233, 17 September 1940, Page 4

ASSISTANCE FOR LONDON

Plans For Relief Of Distress SOUTHLAND EXPECTED TO FUND £l5OO Of the sum of £lOO,OOO which New Zealand is sending to help victims of the London air raids Southland will contribute about £l5OO.

According to Mr W. F. Sturman, secretary of the Southland Provincial Patriotic Council, who attended the conference in Wellington last week of secretaries of patriotic councils, the provincial patriotic councils throughout New Zealand will be called upon to contribute 25 per cent, of New Zealand’s contribution. Southland’s quota, based on one-seventeenth of the amount, is about £l5OO. Mr Sturman explained that that amount would be a first contribution. It was possible that more assistance would be needed. He was confident, however, that this latest call on the people of Southland would be met as freely and as quickly as in the past His experience while visiting Wellington was that Southland led the way in its ready response to patriotic appeals. The organization in Southland and the co-operation of the district patriotic committees and the public in patriotic efforts were matters of which the province could well be proud. Donations to a special fund for London air raid victims will be received and acknowledged by Mr Sturman.

SPLENDID RESPONSE TO APPEAL MORE THAN £3OOO RAISED IN AUCKLAND (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 16. In answer to an appeal by the Mayor (Mr T. C. A. Hislop) to the people of Wellington to subscribe £3OOO as the city’s quota of the New Zealand contribution to the Lord Mayor of London’s fund for the relief of bombing victims, a sum exceeding that amount was assured before 5 o’clock this evening.