MANAIA GIVES £300

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1940, Page 8

MANAIA GIVES £300

TARANAKI SPITFIRE FUND Manaia's promised contribution of £300 to the Taranaki Spitfire fund was paid in at Hawera yesterday, bringing the Hawera total to almost £800 and the Taranaki total to £2922. Another gift yesterday was £3 3s from the sergeants mess at the Royal New Zealand Air Force station at Bell Block. The New Plymouth patriotic committee undertook to assist the mess with a wireless set and provided one. The sergeants had already collected £3 3s among themselves and accordingly have paid it over to the fund. District totals yesterday were:

Acknowledgments yesterday were:

An acknowledgment in Monday's issue, Miss A. S. Leary, should have read Miss A .d Tattv

£ s. d. New Plymouth 1762 10 8 Hawera 784 8 0 Waitara 224 13 10 Eltham 56 4 7 Stratford 65 2 6 Opunake 10 0 0 Tncrlpwonrf 18 19 0

£ s. d. Amount previously acknowledged 1712 7 11 Strathmore-Te Wera Branch W.D.F.U. 2 0 0 An hour's music at Miss Leatham's 10 0 Misses E. and E. Cartwright 2 0 0 Mr. and Mrs. C. Moss, Pungarehu 5 0 0 Mr. and Mrs. H. Campbell, Pungarehu 5 0 0 Mr. A. Roots 10 0 E.M., Tataraimaka 1 15 0 F. B. Blundell 110 Kohuratahi School Social Committee 6 2 9 Mrs. Parkes, Tahora 10 0 Mrs. H. S. Watson 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Jemison 110 Park Tennis Club 2 2 0 Sergeants' Mess, Bell Block Airport 3 3 0 N.P. Table Tennis Club 2 2 0 Mesdames Thomson and Reading 1 17 0 Mr. F. Phillpotts .2 0 0 N.P. Investment and Loan Society (Permanent) 10 10 0 Sundry 15 0 £1762 16 . 8

New Plymouth.

£ s. d. Amount previously acknowledged 50 8 6 T.R.R. 3 3 n T.J.M. 1 1 A. H. Hillock 10 10 0 £65 2 6

Stratford.

Previously acknowledged 190 10 4 Mr. E. A. George 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. J. Armstrong 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. M. I. Oliver 10 0 Misses I. and E. Sutherland 2 2 0 Mr. I. M. Antunovic 110 Mrs. N. Hingley 10 0 Mr. J. Bates 2 0 0 Spitfire 2 0 0 Mr. V. C. Tate 10 0 Mr. T. J. Wood 10 0 Mr. V. R. Pennington 10 0 Mr. G. H. Fletcher 2 2 0 Mr. and Mrs. H. West 2 2 0 Mr. M. S. Patel 110 Kibby Bros. 10 0 Mr. Edwards 110 Bank of New Zealand staff 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Sampson 110 Stevens Ltd. 110 Mr. G. Bartholomew 10 0 Mr. A. Chadwick 110 Mr. Les.' Waters 110 Mr. C.. E. Gaustad 2 2 0 Mr. L. S. Clare 110 Mr. E. H. Pe'nwarden 10 0 Sundry amounts . 2 7 6 _ £224 13 10

Waitara.