£1440 WANTED

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32404, 8 March 1944, Page 7

£1440 WANTED

PATRIOTIC COMMITTEE TASK FOR PRESENT YEAR PROPOSALS FOR PENINSULA “The 1944 appeal for funds has started and in order to co-oidinate the fund raising in this county and to endeavour to fulfill the county quota of £1440 12s 3d some good organising is needed,” states a circular issued by the secretary of the Coromandel Inter-zone Patriotic Committee, Mr J. H. Lucas, to all committees on the Peninsula. The circular adds: — “A public meeting will 'be held in Coromandel on Wednesday, Match 15 at 7.30 p.m. in the County Chambers and it is hoped that at least one or two representatives from each of the ten sub-committees can be present. Transport is a problem but if it is a question of benzine let me know and it may be possible to obtain a special permit as a limited amount is available for patriotic purposes but it is limited. “At the public meeting a suggestion will be put forward in the form of a recommendation from the InterZone Committee that this inter-zone area be constituted one east and one west, so as to co-ordinate the fund raising into the two main centres of Whitianga and Coromandel. These two sub-committees will be responsible to raise their percentage of the £1440 and to adopt any scheme (within the regulations) of fund raising within the area. There might be even a competition between east and west to see which can raise its quota first. The east area will cover the county ridings of Kuaotunu, Whenua-

kite and' Whitianga and west will be the remaining ridings of Whangapoua, Colville and Coromandel. Short Last Year “The 1943 appeal finished up over the whole of the zone area with an excess of £204 l'ss lOd ovei' the quota hut Coromandel inter-zone area was £228 l’6s 8d short of its quota and consequently has this figure added on to this year’s, making a total amount to find 1 of £1440 12s 3d. “ A recent 'bulletin from the National Fund Board starts off by saying: ‘Another’ year has .begun, a year which has opened full of promise of big events that will bring to an end the struggle in which New Zealand with the Allied Nations for over four years has played a worthy part against the forces of aggression, tyranny and oppression. But the end of the road has not been reached.’ “This, I think, is the point we must all have in mind ‘the end of the road has not been reached’ while our New Zealand soldiers, sailors and airmen are still overseas and l on active service the patriotic effort must be maintained to enable that extra little bit to be supplied them. “Now you have to think about and come to that meeting on the 15th. and plan for the 1944 campaign.