RED CROSS COPPER TRAIL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 226, 12 June 1918, Page 7

RED CROSS COPPER TRAIL

NO EXPENSE INCUHIUJD. The little white pavilion creeled in Ijujhamentary grounds i,, connection with -the Eejl Cross copper trail was formerly i.sed as (ho talip houso in (he pietty artificial flower show/at the .Town .Ifall a. few months ago. and,it has not cost tho funds anything Us re-erection on Lambton Quay was dono for nothing I>.V sympatliw-wwilh Iho object " ~,u ^o n chattinp ouor the "trail"'with a Wellington business man, Mm Arthur Pwirco was asked the cost of rnisini; fled Cross funds. She was able lo answer tint the cost of collecting-. money for British Ited Gross work as .a whole was M. per .£l, but in New Zealand it iiad only cost Jd. for each ,£1 rnised-siirely a very creditable achievement.

A number of visiting soldfore were attracted by-the sisn of "Yo Peiinyo" yesterday, and asked what it was all about On being told thoy thought the'thing was "a- Rood gag," and. on the suggestion of a breezy ii.0.0. they .not-only emptied tlwii' pockels to- fill up the lit'tie l.rianglo before the pavilion wil.li pennies, bint also spolfc out tlio namu of the:.- regiment and ild number in pennies, and finished off thoir copper calijrnuphy by working out big crosses in pennies at oitlier end of tbo naniK. Then they "stoxl by" for a. tinio and 1-eipeil to" collect from the pawora-by.

Hero is i>. pretty' little letter received yestwuliiy from n juvonilo Kyinpal.liiser:— f'Hataitni, Juno 6. 1918.

"Dwir Ked Crow liiidy,—The' iil.tlc, , »irl who i'ltvo the lied .Cross thirty-six pennies, <mo for every your of the hro of her poor soldier daddy who was killed, <lid a very nico Ihing, and we. love her tor il;. Sij daddy has givon me thirtysix shilling to five you, mid I hojio some other little gir! whoso daddy hus more money than my daddy will give thirty-six pounds. Tinit would be lovely, and make .Kl" !(!«. for t.he H«ivt> soldiers. Tho little {,'irl would then know thai slm tiad helped to lay down 'M\ yards of pcnniCH on the 'copper ta-ni), J ho my daddy says.—With love, Vivioniio."

Ij'ollowing aro some donations received for tlio "trail" fund:—itr. and Mrs. J. Duncan, .£lO01' Messrs. Kirkoaldie and Staiiiß, X 100; Mr. G. E. Tolhurst, ,£55; Sii- Francis and Li>dy Bell, jCBfl; Dr. W. E. Collins, *C:iO; Dr. Harty, m 10a.; (liivcrninent Prinliiig Ollico staif, £\ IBs. Sd.

Messrs. V. ami ft. Jfiddifo'rd have tele-μ-riilied l<i Mr. \V. S. Spencc, secretary of tlio Auckland Hating Club, instructing .him t6 nllot £M) To tho Auckland fund in the "copper trail" contest and ,£3OO to the Wellington fund out of thoir winnings at tlio zecent race mooting