A WHEELBARROW PARADE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 187, 17 July 1940, Page 5

A WHEELBARROW PARADE

V' — "EFFORT FOR PATRIOTIC FUNDS THE LADIES WILL DO THEJ PUSHING Tire first time, for some, ladies •of Whakatane will push wheelbarrows on Saturday, July 27th. The 'wheelbarrows will be decorated and •each will have a load of £1 worth of ■floods, donated in some instances by those doing the pushing and in others by the business men of the town. £1 worth of -goods may be a heavy load in some case but the lad,j| laced, with the task of pushing thej barrow in. which a pig will ride •should gain much support in the sympathy of the onlookers. Patriotic Funds is the objective of this novel effort, whicili is being -organised by the Men's Patriotic Committee and has as its immediate superintendent Mr Moses Penny, . who is at present appealing more barrows —and more pushers. Telephone 158," you ladies interested./, and Mr Penny will tell you {.ill about it. Incidentally, the idea -of the •goods in the barrows is that an( auction sale will be held at the Square after all in the par ado have safely traversed Commerce Street from Brabant's corner, the starting point. The pros-4 pects are that the sale will cover pigs, poultry, paint, polish, peanuts, pears, groceries, drap-< ery, beer and skittles, and, in fact, everything it is possible to give and sell.