RICE BOWL APPEAL
About £3OOO Received
Funds for the Save the Children Fund's rice bow] appeal had reached more than £2BOO. said the New Zealand president of the society (Miss M. G. Havelaar) at a meeting of the North Canterbury branch committee yesterday. Of this, more than £BOO had been contributed by schoolchildren.
Miss Havelaar said that with more money to come more than £3OOO would be raised. “Christchurch is really rather wonderful when it comes to things like this,” said Miss Havelaar. “The response to the appeal has been very good indeed.”
Miss Havelaar- said the resignation of Mrs R. M. McFarlane from the society had been received with much regret. Mrs MacFarlane, a former Mayoress of Christchurch, had been a member of the fund for 18 years. I “I would like to pay a personal tribute to her," said Miss Havelaar. “Her assistance and her guidance will ibe remembered by us all."
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Press, Issue 31095, 25 June 1966, Page 21
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154RICE BOWL APPEAL Press, Issue 31095, 25 June 1966, Page 21
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