PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 192, 10 May 1940, Page 14

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

More Than £BOOO Given In Wellington The mayor of Wellington acknowledges wilh lluinks. on behalf of the Wellington Provincial I’alrioli'- Council, receipt of ihc following amounts Previously acknowledged. £i a J2/J.O/O; Standard insurance Co.. Ltd.. £;>O; staff, W.C.C. Hleeiricity Department, £o; Messrs. Bing. Harris and Co., Ltd., £100; Messrs. IGiiup’d Woollen ALtimiiucturinj? Co./ Ltd., £.l<><>: Messrs. Wellington Woollen Co., Lid, (allocation to Wellington of a total donation of £500), £200; "E. 5. 10/-; Miss G. Hudson. £5; Mr. V. Jensen, £2O; “Evening Host” list, £8 12/-; Petone Street Day collections (halunee), 0/-; “A Typists,” Lower Hutt, 2/G: Mr. and -Mrs. E. 11. Anderson, Day's Bay, £3O: Wanganui Patriotic Committee, sundry donations, £93/10/11; Palmerston North Patriotic Committee, sundry donations, £lO/2/-; lieildiug Patriotic Committee, sundry donations, £4/19/0; Honorary Justices Association line.i, £25; Atawhai Maori Women’s Institute, Raetihi, £1; Mrs. E. G. Elgar, Featherston (fifth instalment), £10; “Rajpall.” £1; Mrs. Illte, 2Z-; Mrs. C. Harrison, £2: Eastern Hutt Tennis Club line.), £3; Street Day collection, Lower Hutt. £92/11/11; Central Progress League. £5B/13/9: Upper Hutt School, £l/12/6; Miss A. Boyd, proceeds from sale of jewel box, £2/14/-. Total, £B4lB 13/7.

Final Result Of Street Day Appeal At the lust meeting of the Wellington -Metropolitan Patriotic Committee, a statement of the final result of the recent street day appeal wiis_ submitted, showing a net return of £1137/12/10. The statement, was:— Receipts—Collection by women helpers at city and suburban stands, £765/10/10; collection by women’s committee in Lower Hutt, £92/11/11; collection by women’s committee in Petone, £59/9/8; collection by women’s committee in Eastbourne, including contribution of £2O by Eastbourne Bowling Club. £47/18/7; collection by women’s committee in Johnsonville, £2O/1.1/4; collection by women’s committee in Makara, £l5/17/-; collection by women’s committee in Upper Hutt, £l/12/6: contributions by staffs of Government departments, £l6l/19/9. ’Total, £1165/11/7. Payments—Advertising, £l2; printing and miscellaneous supplies, £l3/12/6; sundries, £2/6/3; excess of receipts over payments, £1137/12/10. Total, £1165 11/7. The committee expresses its grateful appreciation to the women’s committees and to all helpers for their efforts iu bringing about such a satisfactory result.