OF INTEREST

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 201, 19 August 1940, Page 5

OF INTEREST

canvass of a district i» being made. The cards are numbered and must be signed by the collector and the Intcr-'Zone i Secretary and provision is * made thereon for the subscriber to sign his name and record the ammint of his donation.

WORK OF THE PATRIOTIC COMMITTEE Items of general interest taken from the report submitted to the Zone 'G' Whakatane County and Borough Inter-zone Committee by the lion, secretary and treasurer, 'Mr C. G. Lucas, include: This district hias forwarded 10 large cases and 2 cartons of clothing to Auckland as a result of the response, made to Lady Ga;lway's Guild appeal for clothing for refugees. Advice was recently received that the object of the Guild' was to collect clothing and footwear of all descriptions but that materials were not to be purchased for ,the making of new garments. Where garments 'ase worth repairing such work may be undertaken and the necessary materials purchased, the cost to be paid by the Patriotic Council. a » # 9 The Wliakatane Borough committee packed and sorted not Ipnly its own collections (Lady Galway's appeal) but also those of other areas. The Taneatua committee consigned eight cases of clothing direct. Special thanks are due to both committees. « * « • Advice Avas received from the Department of Internal Affairs and the Minister of Internal Affairs that the Government was not prepared to permit Inter-Zone Committees to sanction raffles which did not exceed £5. This advice was received in June. The minutes of the Auckland Provincial Patriotic Council of 23rd July state that tlie Department of Internal Affairs had arranged to invest in Provincial Secretaries authority to approve raffle applications tip to the value of £5 and to delegate such authority to Zone secretaries. Probably a standard' raffle ticket will be used. In answer to an enquiry fronj the Auckland Provincial Patriotic Council it has been: indicated to such body that this district could use 350 authorised collectors' cards. Such cards will be 'o£ use a (Gontinued foot of previous column)