SENSIBLE COLLECTING BOX

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 56, 29 November 1917, Page 3

SENSIBLE COLLECTING BOX

FROM "WANGANUI,

The Department of Internal Affairs Las at present on exhibition for all who aro interested what is considered to. bo the best form of patriotic collecting box used in New Zealand up to date. As usual, it is the simplest in construction, easiest to carry, and eminently "safe." The new collecting box, which is the one adopted by tlio Wauganui-Waitotara Patriotic Association, is notbing moro or less than a treacle tin with an ordinary fit-in lid (with a slot hole), to which a side handle has been attached. A simple' little leather flap attached to the inside of tho lid is calculated to make it difficult for the contents to bo extracted. The lid, which fits tightly is sealed on with a paper seal, which etretches right across the iid and partly down tho sides of the tin, and is signed and stamped the association. That means that the seal has to- be piercsd to reveal thy slot. Underneath the tin is pasted the official permit to collect, with the collector's name written in plain characters, and signed by the chairman of tho association. The advantages of the tin are that it need not be suspended laterally all tho time, aa is the case with ihe Wellington boxes. It may be carried hanging downwards, until the moment for 'action arrives. The Wangauui-Waitotara Patriotic Association's rales provide that the tin shall be handled by the one to whom it is issued and no other, that it must be handed in at a certain time to a certain place, and there opened in the presence of two or more witnesses. Tho argument that tho tin may be too small may be met by saying that many young ladies have found the Wellington boxes too big; in any case oi:ce a tin is filled it may be handed in, and another issued. Mr. Kinniburgh, who. has control of tho branch of the department concerned with patriotic collections, says that he believes the Wanganui box is the best and most convenient of all the collecting-boxes he has seen in use in New Zealand, »nd he is bringing it ur.der the notice of people interested in Wellington.