GIFTS FROM COLONIES
SUPPORT FOR BRITAIN’S WAR EFFORT. (British Offiicial Wireless.) RUGBY, July 18. The Colonial Secretary has gratefully accepted an offer of £lOO,OOO, free of interest for the duration of the war, from the Railway Advisory Council and Harbour Advisory Board of the Kenya-Uganda railway. The latest gifts to the British war effort includes £360 from Lebanese and Syrian residents of Dominca, who state that the sum is a “contribution to Britain’s righteous cause in her fight against Hitlerism and all it stands for.” The donors ask that the money should be used as part of the cost of a bombing aeroplane, or if this is impracticable for the purchase of bombs. Further gifts are £lOOO from an unofficial member of the Penang Legislative Council, an anonymous contribution' of £6OOO for the purchase of a Spitfire, a third instalment of £5OOO from the Gold Coast to the Spitfire Fund, and an initial sum of £lO,OOO from Nigerians to the Win-the-War Fund.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1940, Page 2
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