JUNIOR RED CROSS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 96, 10 August 1945, Page 5

JUNIOR RED CROSS

SATURDAY'S STREET APPEAL EXCELLENT SUM RAISED The Annual Street Appeal by forms 1 and 2 of the Wha'katane District High School took place on Saturday morning, when the somewhat astonishing 'sum of £43 odd was taken. The appeal was coiv dacted by both boys and. girls of the respective an,d took the. form of a copper trail in the Strand and a shop in. the front of the Grand Theatre.

Proceedings commenced shortly after 9 a.m. with the chalk lines to guide the coppers marked down the footpath, and the shop stock lai,d out carefully on the counter. The shop stock, it might be mentioned, was as plentiful as it was varied! Produce, sweets books and magaall acted as magnets for the public, and the. sales assistants behind the 'counter' found no time at all for loafing. Almost the entire stock was either .donated or made by the girls themselves, and they certainly deserve credit for their performance.

The copper trail did not lack support either, and coins both silver and brown, rolled in in amazing fashion, Saturday morning is apparently the time when the majority of people acquire much loose change —an.d it was not long before this same loose change was reposing on the pavement as an incentive to other loose change reposing in pockets, to do likewise. Certainly the boys and girls in charge lost no op r portunity of spurring the public on to even greater efforts.

The money raised is intended to swell the funds of the Junior Red Cross and £43 quite a goodly sum with which to swell them. Congratulations must therefore gn to the boys and girls themselves, +o the teachers under whose guidance they worked, and to all the mothers behind the scenes on an excellent and fruitful Saturday morning's work.