U.N. Appeal For Children
Collection In Borough Now Well Under Way Collectors for the United Nations Appeal for Children started work in the Whakatane Borough on Monday, and plan to have completed a house-to-house canvass by next Wednesday. ;
National headquarters of the appeal have consistently emphasised the “give a day” angle, urging the wage-earner to give a .day’s wages, and business and professional men a day’s profits. , \ . So far the district secretary, Mr L. D. Lovelock, has £209 5s in hand — £95 2s from Ohope, £7O 19s 2d from Otakiri, £4 3s from Manawahe, and £39 Is so far from Whakatane Borough. . A keen group of children from Haig Street decided to help the cause along with an impromptu circus last Saturday. The show cost them 5s to organise, and the appeal benefited to the extent of 30s.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 48, 21 May 1948, Page 4
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138U.N. Appeal For Children Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 48, 21 May 1948, Page 4
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