SICK & WOUNDED
FUND PASSES HALF MILLION MARK. NOTEWORTHY PATRIOTIC ACHIEVEMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. In less than seven weeks the National Sick. Wounded and Distressed Fund has reached a total of more than half a million pounds, an average collection of over £lO.OOO daily. Mr J. Abel. Dominion organiser, said today that since they had set out to raise £250.000 the energy of the committees and the generosity of the public had been remarkable. The original quota had been secured in a short time. The attainment of half a million was a noteworthy effort in patriotic campaigns in New Zealand and had never been surpassed even in the last war. when patriotic fervour was at its height.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1940, Page 6
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119SICK & WOUNDED Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1940, Page 6
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