A FINE RESULT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 16, 13 October 1917, Page 9

A FINE RESULT

SURPRISE PACKET SCHEME

YIELDS £3,220

t ■ Tho commercial travellers of 'Wellington have a namo for doing things well. They are tho men who 'tho late Elbert Hubbard would have placed in the team ns those capablo of "carrying a message to Garcia," owing to thoir capacity of going right through with anything they set their hands to, and "cleaning up the show." Thej; sot aside two days of last week on ;which to raise £3006 by the disposal of surprise packet envelopes for blind soldiers and sailors. \ Thoy pronir Isod tho public a "fair run" for its nionoy, and gave it to them, but instead , of cleaning up the .£3OOO in the tyre days as arranged, they did it in Jess than ono day, which is a record for Wellington, and a fresh plume, in the a°-. gregato hat of H io commercials. . A rough statement issued by the' travellers yesterday gives - the proceeds as follows:— ; f>alo of envelopes £3050 Sale of goods left over ....- 60 Amount over and above e.\» penses snbscribed by members ..- of,tho association ...* 110 ' .£3220 In Tespect to the last item it should bo explained, in fairness to Ihe travellers, that some of the goods Riven away had to bo purchased, but that did not cost the public one pehn}-, as the amount to cover -that expenditure was given by members of the association and their clients. Thero were instances where a man could not, perhaps, donate goods, but gave a guinea or two towards the ' expenses fund, which also had to cover the cost of railage, advertising, and the printing of the envelopes (of which. 61,000 were used). But such was the response that all expenditure was met by the fund, and £110 was left over. The UMW is the money (in round figures) realised bv the auction sale of goods in the street by Mr. Arthur Jacobs on Tuesday afternoon. Big Prize-winners. Tho winners of tho big prims were as follow—Section of land at Khandallah, '•:' Mrs. Fanny Taylor, Park Street,- Wellington: 6into of furniture, Mr. L. LindSav, 12-J- Brittomart Sheet; ■ sewing machine, Mrs. F. Lovall, 2-t. St. Mary Street; library of 20 volumes, Miss E. Fnss, care Mrs. Barraud, Lower Hutt; library of ten volumes, Mr.' L. Henretti, 'Wadestown; trip to the Chatham Islands, Dr. Eoss, Petone. The section of land at Khandallah, which is valued at .£125. was presented l>y Mr. G. P. Mawson, of Chilkn Street, for whose generosity the travellers-ex-press themselves as extremely grateful. The name of, Mr. .John Brodie was inndvertently inserted in place of that of Mr. K.. Jr. Brewer ni one of ihe '•<■- cipienjn of gold .-medallions- presented.by Hit '".'•illington commercial travellers to Fome of their most enthusiastic workers in connection with the surprise packet scheme. "- •