PATRIOTIC ACTIVITIES

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 103, 26 January 1943, Page 3

PATRIOTIC ACTIVITIES

Metropolitan Committee Meeting The mayor of Wellington, .Mr, Hislop, presided over a luil.v attended meeting of the ‘Wellington .Metropolitan Patriotic Committee held in .Electricity House yesterday. It was reported that the town clerk had written advising that lie had kept Starch clear for a special patriotic street day. Correspondence to the town clerk concerned t| sports bodies street day appeal (patriotic) for .March 5; permission to hold a concert, in the Grand Opera House on February ”, with Ignaz Friedman, the Polish pianist, as the main attfactiou; and permission Io hold a baseball match at Athletic Park on Sunday, March 31. The secretary, .Mr. \. M ard, referring to a letter written to the Commissioner of Stamp Duties, asking for remission on amusement tax lor visiting servicemen attending picture theatres on Christmas night in Wellington, said that the tax could not lie remitted. Sir Harry Batterbee, High Commissioner for Great Biitain, sent a cheque for £5/5/-, in lieu of sending out Christmas cards last month. Profitable Trotting Meeting.

It was reported that the return to the patriotic fund from the last meeting or the Wellington Trotting Club had amounted to £1300; so that, with the i for £ subsidy from the Government, the fund benefited to the extent of £2boo. The trotting club was quite willing to hold another meeting, and a letter had been sent to the Internal Affairs Department asking permission to bold another meeting on April 3. Mr. P. Lawlor wrote to the committee advising that as the result of the Churchill auctions in Wellington the patriotic fund would benefit to the extent of £1483/1/5. The chairman congratulated Air. Lawlor on his splendiu effort in connexion with these auctions. The Heretaunga Golf Club sent a cheque for £33/10/6, being the results of a patriotic golf day ou the club’s course.

The secretary reported that the street parcel day, organized by the Public Service, when coupons for 10/- were sold to defray the cost of a parcel for servicemen overseas, had proved a decided success, £1620 having been realized. He had nothing but praise to give those who supervised the effort. Mr. "Ward said that an additional £2O for parcels had been received from Upper Hutt. The secretary also reported that the Friedman concert given last month had resulted in a coutributkn of £220 to the local patriotic fund. Among the patriotic fixtures ahead, the secretary reported that there was to be a patriotic cricket match on the Basin Reserve on February 19 and 20, and a patriotic sports meeting on the Basin Reserve on March 6.