SPITFIRE FUND

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1940, Page 8

SPITFIRE FUND

WAITARA WORKERS' GIFT With about £400 yet to pass through the hands of the treasurers, Taranaki's Spitfire fund has advanced to approximately £2400, so that almost half the amount aimed at is now in sight. Waitara freezing workers who have made several notable gifts to patriotic funds, have given £40 to the Spitfire fund. District totals yesterday were:— New Plymouth £1638 ls lld, Hawera £475 15s 6d, Waitara £190 4s lOd, Eltham £36, Stratford £44 3s 6d, Opunake £4. District acknowledgements are:— Waitara: Amount previously acknowledged £75 7s. Okoke: Mr. and Mrs. Calvert £1 ls, Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilson £1, Mr. and Mrs. Ekdahl £2 2s, Mr. and Miss E. Whittaker jnr. £1, sundry amounts £1 14s 6d. Freezing works employees, including office staff £40 6s lOd, Mr. S. G. Fraser £1, Mr. W. H. C. Charteris £1; Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Richards £1 ls, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hamlin £3 3s, Waitara Amateur entertainers £5, Miss P. Secker £2 2s, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Clare £1 ls, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hoskins £5, Mr. and Mrs. J. Withers £5, Miss M. Knight £2 2s, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Vaughan £10 10s, Mr. G. T. Jones £1 ls, Mrs. H. Moyes £1, Mr. W. V. Morey £1, Mr. H. Billing £1 ls, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Fowler £1 0s Od, Mr. W. Terrill £1 ls, Mr. E. W. Waters £1 ls, Mr. H. I. Chittenden £2 2s, Mr. and Mrs. Howlett £1 0s Od, Mr. R. W. Grant £1 ls, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Smith £2, Miss E. Johnstone £1, Mr. and Mrs. F. Locke £1 ls, Beckbessinger Bros. £1, Mr. E. Reynolds snr. £1, Mr. E. Reynolds jnr. £1, Mr. and Mrs. H. .J. M. Wells £1 ls, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Barnitt £5, Mr. and Mrs. E. McGinty £1 10s, Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Sole £1 ls, sundry amounts £3 15s; total £190 4s lOd.

£ s; d. Previously acknowledged 1547 14 8 Employees Farmers' Fertiliser Co. H 16 0 Fitzroy Golf Club card party 4 9 9 Oakura School Children 25 0 0 N.P. Municipal Engineers' Department Employees' Sick and Accident Society 5 0 0 Mrs. W. J. Price, Hawera 110 Mr. G. Clement, Hawera 2 2 6 Kaimata Women's Institute 10 0 "R.M., Purangi" 2 0 0 H. Cocker and Co. 1 0 0 Mr. and Mrs. Porter 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Topless 110 Mr. and Mrs. W. Kilpatrick 2 2 0 Mr. and Mrs. A. McDougall, Oaonui 200 Mrs. R. Kearney 5 0 0 "T.M.M." 1 0 0 "E.E.F.H." 10 0 "C.M." 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Galbraith 2 0 0 Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Blundell 2 2 0 Mary Gill 2 2 0 Mr. and Mrs. John MacLeod 5 5 0 "A.W." 2 0 0 Happy Evenings 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Mace 11? Miss A. Marshall 10 0 Miss A. S. Leary 10 0 Sundry 250 £1638 1 11

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