TRAVELLERS' CONCERT.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18363, 22 April 1925, Page 7

TRAVELLERS' CONCERT.

. ♦ The announcement that the Canterbury Commercial Travellers are to give a concert in the Caledonian Hall on Thursday, April 30th, will arouse the widest interest in Christchurch for the travellers' entertainments are exceedingly and deservedly popular. Whenever the travellers' party takes the concert platform, it can be always taken for granted that it does so on behalf of some worthy cause. Many and varied are tho deserving objects that . have benefited by the whole-hearted efforts of the travel.'ol3. The Canterbury Association has such largo benefactions standing to its credit as £12,204 raised to save Lancaster Park as a playing ground, £1064 raised for the Belgian Harvest Festival during, the • wax period, £IOSB raised for Soldiers' Day,' 1917, £839 for children's fresh air homes, £774 for Lewiaham General" Hospital, £403 for St. Saviour's Orphanage Fund, besides countless smaller sums collected for charity". In all their years of helpful work for others the Canterbury Commercial.. Travellers'- Association has never made an. appeal or promoted any function for its own funds, therefore next week's concert will be unique, for it is being presented solely on behalf of the Association. The entertainment will be up to the highest standard of travellers' concerts, for many outside artists wijl assist anxious to help'th'e Association which has been a never failing source of help to practically every deserving object that has come before the public during and since the war. Tickets for the concert may be obtained from any member of the Association or from "Webley's, High street, where the box plans are on view.