SPLENDID WORK OF THE SCHOOLS
— * • wEI2OO IN SIGHT PROM THE PRODUCE FAIR. Contrary to expectations there was not much stuff left to be sold by auction at the Town Hall on Saturday morning by way of winding up the produce fair. Mr. Gellately (of.Bethune and Co/s) acted as auctioneer, and sold off the residue from the various stalls, and alro a fine lot of cut flowers that arrived from Otald, just in. time to be sold for the fund. A set of furs brought £o 10s., and a fur rug .£9 10s. In all, the result of the winding-up sale amounted to some .£55. Mr. G. L. Stewart, the secretary of the Education Board, stated that the total amount realised by the fair will exceed: .£llsO. That amount is .already, in hand, and there are still some small lots of inoney to come to hand, where the goods were sold locally, owimr to the impossibility of getting if to Wellington in time for the fair, and it is estimated that J61200 will be reached. The effort has been most successful. and will Ion? bo remembered as a' feature of waT-time, as far as the school children are concerned.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2837, 31 July 1916, Page 8
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198SPLENDID WORK OF THE SCHOOLS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2837, 31 July 1916, Page 8
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