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AMERICAN PEOPLE MONEY AND GOODS SENT DO MORE BUT FOR ELECTION (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Thursday “We are glad the committee is able to d,o something for New Zealand,” writes Mr Alfred H. Banjamin, a member of the Anzac War Fund Relief Committee in New York, to Mr R. S. Little, of Auckland, a business friend. “Since writing to you the Ethyl Gasline Company has given a thousand dollars to the fund and several other contributions have been made. “I recently received a letter from members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in London asking for cigarettes. I have recommended that 50,000 be shipped immediately. They also ask if we can send an ambulance for the New Zealand No. 1 General Hospital, and we are doing our utmost to comply at the earliest possible moment. Only Matter of Time “As you can quite realise, Americans are behind the British as well as the Australian and New Zealand soldiers wherever they may be, and I think it is only a matter of time when the British will win, though the sacrifices are going to be tremendous. “Mr R. S. Forsyth writes me from London to say that the R.A.F. is miles ahead of the Germans in efficiency, although numerically the Germans are in the lead. “We are all working for the cause, and if men are willing to give their blood we should give support in every possible way. We have a bigger job on our hands here than in 1914 because people today haven’t got the money they had then. It was much easier then to get a thousand dollars than twenty dollars now. “However, you can tell the people of New Zealand that the United States Is a hundred per cent behind Britain, and we think that were it not for the election here we would give a great deal more than we are doing now.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21222, 19 September 1940, Page 6
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