Cage & Aviary Birds

Down the Decades: the 1940s

EDITORIAL: NATIONAL CAGE BIRDS RED CROSS APPEAL

DURING the past fortnight contributions amounting to £7 13s have come to hand, and these raise the grand total of gifts to £3,849 4s 7d. Here are details of the latest donations:

■ Hornsey and Wood Green CBS: £3

■ High Wycombe CBS: £1 1s

■ Hemel Hempstead CBS: £1

■ Andover CBS: £1

■ Anonymous: 17s

■ Mrs C.M. Scott: 10s

■ J. Stainton: 5s

That splendid supporter of the appeal, Mr C.H. Taylor, along with his workmates and members of the Hornsey and Wood Green CBS, of which society he is of course secretary, in sending us a further £3 has now raised the magnificent total of, for which we are immensely grateful. Would that all fanciers possessed the persuasive powers which friend Taylor evidently possesses, for our fund would then standard somewhere about £10,000!

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