GIFTS FOR CHURCHILL AUCTION
The gifts received in Invercargill for the Churchill auction have already been sent to Dunedin, where the auction will be held on October 21, but the city librarian, Mr H. B. Farnall, has received two additional contributions. One gift includes 23 coins (Russian, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Cingalese, Japanese, Italian and Dutch), 16 first cover stamps and two Tin-Can Mail envelopes. The first cover stamps include those issued on August 29, 1939, to commemorate 25 years of New Zealand control of Western Samoa. The tin-can mail envelopes were thrown .overboard in a sealed container from the Maunganui off Niuafoou, one of the Tongan Group. The coins and stamps were given by M. McKay, 130 Ettrick street, Invercargill. The other gift, from A. W. Kempton, Woodlands, is “The History of the War With Russia. Giving full deails of the Operations of the Allies,” by Henry Tyrrell. The war is the Crimean War. The work was published in four volumes, but these have been bound into two. Fine steel engravings are a notable feature of the volumes.
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Southland Times, Issue 24868, 7 October 1942, Page 2
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179GIFTS FOR CHURCHILL AUCTION Southland Times, Issue 24868, 7 October 1942, Page 2
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