KARORI PATRIOTIC APPEAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1944, Page 7

KARORI PATRIOTIC APPEAL

A report showing the progress made in the Karori campaign for raising the district's quota of £900 in the present patriotic appeal was made at a meeting of the Karori R.SA. branch committee this week. It was stated by Mr. S. Roberts, who has been actively associated with the drive for funds, that sums amounting to £857 had actually been paid in to the fund as a result of the present drive, which, in the suburban districts, was being organised by the Joint Council of St. John and the Red Cross. The result of the campaigning to date gave considerable satisfaction to members.

The following contributions to the 1044 Combined Patriotic Appeal are acknowledged: Wadestown Patriotic Committee, £275; Khandallah Patriotic Committee, £159 8s Sd; Ngaio Patrotlo Committee, £107 3a 9d; Forster E £50; Island Ray Nursing Division, £30 5s 3d; Mrs. A. Leitch, G. H. Mooney and Co., Corv Wright, anil Salmon, £25 each; Karori Patriotic Committee, £23 15s; Oriental Bay Patriotic Committee, £18 ISs Gd; Wellington Football Association (proceeds of tournament), £15 ios pel; Ngaio Patriotic Committee, £15 ss; Mitchell and Mitchell, £10 10s; Lawrence and Swan, £10 10s; Crichton, McKay, and Haiightoij, £10; Red Cross, Porirua, £10; L.vall Bay Patriotic Committee, £G; J. Gibbs, Dij Pont and Co., J. M. Dawson, £5 5s each; Miss M. Kane, K. M. Burnett, Empire Theatre Island Bay, Regal Tiieatre, Karori, Rivoli Theatre, Newtown, £5 each.

About 4.30 a.m. on Wednesday, two premises in High Street, Lower Hutt, were entered and goods stolen. One of the premises was a jeweller's shop, the plate-glass window of .which was smashed and a quantity of jewellery taken. Before 10 a.m. that day the detective staff at Lower Hutt had arrested two young men who appeared in the Lower Hutt Court later and were remanded until next Tuesday.