PATRIOTIC CANVASS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 48, 4 May 1942, Page 5

PATRIOTIC CANVASS

OVERLAP AT WAIMANA UNAUTHORISED REPORTS Reporting to the County and Borough Inter-Zone Patriotic Committee last Friday Mrs Wylde 1 the Waimana delegate complained that there had been considerable confusion created in that area due to the fact that several contradictory reports had been published in the Beacon from unauthorised sources. In one instance it was stated that £500 had been collected and this had reflected detrimentally upon the canvassers efforts. She asked that the press be requested to accept only reports from bona fide persons appointed by the individual committees. Trouble had also been experienced by an overlap of canvassers from Opotiki ay ho had entered Waimana territory and lifted, as far as could be ascertained £40. The confusion was the result of a road being the dividing land half of which lay in each zone. The chairman. Mr T. L. Burnett, said that he had no doubt but that Opotiki would be prepared to remit the amount once the position was explained te, them. As for the other trouble' he felt that the press would take a note of what had happened and would avoid as much as 1 po.v— sible its recurrance.