SURPRISE PACKETS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 146, 15 March 1919, Page 8

SURPRISE PACKETS

NOTABLE EFFORT ENDED S £5100 FROM STREET SALES "We have already banked .£SOOO, find I have another ,£IOO to bank in my office. This money is all from actual street shies of surprise packets," said Mr Carlton, secretary of the Commercial Travellers' Club, at 8.30 o'clock lasl evening. This amount does not includc " donations, the full total of which can't not be made up until all cheques foi 10 promised donations are in, which maj , a not bo for a few days yet. One of these 18 amounts is a promised donation of JCSCH E from (he Wellington Harbour Board, about which there is a slight legal hitch. " The following are a few more dona- ° tiotis, hitherto unacknowledged:—SarS goo'l, Son, and Ewen, JIM; Union Cloth--11 iiw Co., .450; Australian Institute ol Marino Engineers. Jt'so; D.1.C., -£25 ■> Magnus, Sanderson and Co., JE2S; Stewar! ." Timber and Hardware Co., .£2O; Mr IS Darid Jones (manager Ross, Glendining s ; and Co.), ,£ls; Sir James Allen, -£10 10s. "J Mr. Alex. Scott, J!5; Miss Reeves, XI "Anonymous," ,£l. , The sale of envelopes was continued . with unabated business zest by the young j Indies yesterday morning, and so merrj did thev make the pace that every en • velope was sold (100,000) by 3 p.m. j The most valuable section of land wai won by Mr. Andrews, a barman in a city ' hotel, and Mr. Jas. Einlay, New Zealand representative of the Shaw, Savill, anc AHii.in Company, won the Singer sewing L machine. 10 At Slie.l will be open until noon to-daj a and all day on Monday for Hie redemp l- tion of tickets. The balance of the goods ;s will be sold at auction by Mr. Arthui >f Jacobs at M. Shed at noon on Tuesday, ic —