THE RADIUM FUND
APPROACHING £8000.
The Radium Fund continues to mount a little higher, but most- of the new money is coming from the country. Many donations from the city, whicli the committee expected, have not yet come in.
The fluid stands as follows:
Received by treasurer In hand .....;. Promised^ not yet received In hand in. country and newspaper offices :
£ s. d. 6376 0 0
30 0 0 500 0 0
820 0 0
£7726 0 0
The folbwing amounts (included in the above amount) have been received since those last acknowledged :—Waterwortho Ltd., £10 10s; residents Plimmertbn and district, £60 4s 3£d; staff, Prisons Department, £7 4s; residents, Masterton aistrict, £368 3s lOd; "Masterton," i>A is ; ■ staff, Telephone Exchange, £3 3s; total, £451 7s l|d. _A letter has been received from .the Town Clerk, Carterton, enclosing £30 collected in that centre. The Mayor of Masterton (Mr. O. N. C. Pragnell) writes: "I have much pleasure in enclosing herewith a cheque for £368 -3s IM, collected by the 'Wairarapa Age' the Wairarapa Daily Times,' and myself, in aid' of this fund. So far as I can see at present, there is at least another £2{> in sight, but I do not propose to close the fund until I hear from you f-*u°r ,T IleF- il siMllld be d°r,e.—Yours faithfully (signed), O. N. C. Pragnell"
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1924, Page 8
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224THE RADIUM FUND Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1924, Page 8
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