WAR EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1940, Page 5

WAR EFFORT

GIFTS FROM THE EMPIRE. AFRICAN CHILDREN SURRENDER CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 26. The latest gifts toward the war effort from various parts of the colonial Empire include £5250 from Jamaica, being a special Christmas donation to the mobile canteen fund. The Governor of Northern Rhodesia has received £2OOO from Mr. Peter Hay, a farmer of Pemb, as a loan without interest for the duration of the war and three months after. Two further sums have been received from the British Red Cross committee and £ll5 from the Seychelles local war charities fund. The Secretary of State for colonies Lord Lloyd in thanking the children of a Northern Rhodesian town for giving up their own Christmas presents to contribute £l4O for British children in the bombed areas says: “It brings happiness to many children who are homeless, and I wish the donors to know that the unselfish surrender of their own presents will' earn them the special gratitude of these children and their parents.” The Minister of Aircraft Production, Lord Beaverbrook, acknowledges a gift of £7665 toward the purchase of aircraft from the Robert Peel Spitfire fund subscribed for by regulars and auxiliaries of the 160 police forces of England Scotland and Wales toward the purchasing of Spitfires to be called the “Robert Peel.”

During the week ended December 24 the number of loans free of interest received by the Treasury was 103, totalling £153,587. The total amount received now is £25,097,366 and the total number of loans 11,184.