THE COPPER TRAIL
' ' AUCKLAND ARRIVES IN UJiiLLLNU'IUiN. . A telegram from Auckland received yesterday announces that the Auckland Copper Trail lias readied 'Thorndon. Tho Auckland people have raised over. £513,000 in order to accomplish this feat and thus win tho contest. Tho complete Auckland trail and the incomplete Wellington N trail represent contributions to the lied Cross funds amounting to over £125,000. Referring to tiic Auukia<ut win last evening, Mrs. Wilford said shefTiad received a lriendly telegram Irom the Auckland committee stating that thoy still hoped to welcom'e *tho Wellington trail in Auckland, and she- was replying that _ Wellington intended to carry uii until the closing of the "Our Day" Appeal on October 24. Last week the Wellington trail went forward 20 miles, and the end now rests at Maugaweka, 148 miles from Thorndon. The week's contributions included £3100 from Masterton, as an addition to the Wairarapa Patriotic Society's gift of £10,000, £779 7s. i from Maryborough and Pirinoa, and £250 from Feilding. A special collection made at tho Clyde Quay School, with the aid of a trail board, produced £7 2s. A sum of £16 10s. was brought to the/ chalet on Lambton Quay by two energetic girls who had organised and conducted- a bazaar in St. Mark's Schoolroom. A little girl named Madge, aged four years, brought Is. for each year of her life and "one more for a soldier."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 307, 16 September 1918, Page 6
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231THE COPPER TRAIL Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 307, 16 September 1918, Page 6
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