£4090 FOR CHILDREN
Street Appeal By Students
More than £4ooo—including 31,000 pennies—was collected in the students’ street collection for Cholmondeley Memorial Home for Children, said Mr R. E. Scott, chairman of the collection committee, after the final count at the Civic Theatre. The sum collected 'was £4090 )Bs. This is an increase of £289 Is lOd over last year’? total, which included £455 9s 4d from business firms and £ll Hs ltd from the Business Men’s Club, neither of which were approached this year. The rheoue was presented to the chairman of the Cholmondeley Home board (Mr C. L. Paterson) during the interval of the students’ revue last evening. Mr Paterson said the home was tremendously in need of finance and the students’ collection would be used to very good advantage. “Not many people knew about the Cholmondeley Home before, and we were badly in need of publicitv. Now. thanks to Bob Scott and his team of collectors, we are known—probably ad nauseam—to the Christchurch public,” said Mr Paterson.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29504, 4 May 1961, Page 14
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