APPROACHING £4000

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1940, Page 8

APPROACHING £4000

TARANAKI SPITFIRE FUND APPEAL CLOSING TO-DAY With £3808 16s lld in hand, a total of more than £4000 is expected in the Taranaki Spitfire fund before it closes to-night. Several substantial amount? have yet to be received by the treasurer Among later contributions are £5( from the Taranaki and Egmont-Wanga-nui Hunt Clubs and £34 10s from th New Plymouth reformatory as a resul: of recent variety performances by thf inmates.

Donations will be received at the offices of the Taranaki Daily News and by either of the joint secretaries of the New Plymouth committee, Messrs. F. Davis and E. J. Carr, Devon Street, New Plymouth. At Waitara £312 ls 2d is in hand, but contributions from the Waitara district are expected to be much greater than this total. About £100, it is stated, has been collected at Urenui and district and further substantial sums are to eome from the Tikorangi and Brixton districts. Besides the Association football matches played in Pukekura Park on Saturday dances were held in the evening in country districts, the profits being for the Spitfire fund. At New Plymouth last night the Singing Pierrots gave a concert in aid of the Spitfire fund at the State Theatre, when an attractive and novel programme was presented. An amount of £2 2s credited to J. F. Munro omitted the address, Lepperton. An addition to the provincial total is £37 paid in at Patea. Of this sum a dance held by the Patea Municipal Band raised £14. A variation in regulations to enable trustees and companies to contribute to funds to provide aeroplanes for the Royal Air Force, for the defence of New Zealand or for training pilots in Canada under the Empire training scheme, where articles of association have hitherto prevented them from doing so, are contained in a Gazette notice, states a Wellington Press Association message.

£ s. a. New Plymouth and Hawera 3004 3 11 Waitara 312 1 2 Eltham 70 0 0 Stratford HO 0 0 Inglewood 80 4 10 Opunake 45 8 6 Riverlea 12 12 0 Patea 37 0 0 Meremere 5 0 0 Kaponga 22 8 0 Egmont County 109 18 6 Provincial total £3808 16 11 Further donations are:—

District totals to date are:

£ s d Previously acknowledged 2800 18 5 Mrs. A. C. Jones, Hurleyville 2 0 0 Mr. and Mrs. J. Johnson, Hurleyville (further contribution) 10 0 "S.S." 10 0 G. Collingwood 10 0 R. Lovell 2 0 0 J. M. Wilson 110 Rev. S. and Mrs. Henderson 10 0 "E.A.C." 10 0 Brougham 3 0 0 "E.M.," Tataraimaka 15 0 Anonymous, Fitzroy 2 0 0 Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Lester 3 3 0 Donation from Happiness Club — Result of furniture competition £11 Is 6d, result of frog competition £4, donation from Mr. E. Reed £4, work basket competition £2, social gatherings, etc., £8 18s 6d— total 30 0 0 Employees Henry Brown and Co., Ltd. 3 13 0 Whiteley. War Comforts Circle 2 2 0 Mr. and Mrs. H. C. and Newt Sampson 5 0 0 Mi*, and Mrs. I. H. Therkleson 2 2 0 N.P. Women's Branch of Labour Party 5 0 0 Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Ackland 110 Nurses' Home 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. R. Emett 2 0 0 Staff Electric Light Dept. 10 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. Searle 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Pearce 3 3 0 Anonymous 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Perry 10 0 Miss C. Graham 10 0 "M.C." 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. Morton Smale 10 0 True Britisher 110 Half Share Combined Hunts (Taranaki and Egmont-. Hunt Clubs' recent race meeting) 50 0 0 H. Hendricksen 110 Boon Bros., Ltd. 10 0 *0 Mrs. N. Crozier 110 James Lobb 5 5 0 Oakura Badminton Club 2 0 "0 H.M. Reformatory 34 10 0 M. Bourke 10 0 J. M. Wilson (second donation) 10 0 W. H. Chong 1 I ® Sundry amounts 4 7) 6 Total £3004 3 11 Opunake. Previously acknowledged £42 2s 6d Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Newman 110 C. H. Smith 1 ° n Sundry amounts 15 Total £45 8 6 Rahotu. Rahotu Croquet Club 14 0 0 W. R. Wright 10 10 0 Rahotu W.D.F.U. 5 0 0 Wright Bros. J ® J Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Morgan 3 3 0 Mr. and Mrs. Sergeant 2 0 0 H. Cochrane 110 A. E. Williams 1 0 0 L. E. Billing - , 7 « Mr. and Mrs. Tylee - 110 £1 donations (Mrs. R. Dawson, Mrs. R. S. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Farquhar, Mr. and Mrs. L.-E. Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. E. Da vies senr., Mr. and Mrs. G. Prosser, Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Maxwell, Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Dawson, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Dawson, Messrs. Green and Green, Messrs. W. H. Butler, F. Chapman, G. Wells, R. Dawson, A. Lockley, E. F. MacRae, P. Norgate, E. Looney, M. Dodunski, R. S. Bell, W. G. Barr, E. H. Symons, W. Fairhurst, A. Gilhooly, S. Baker, H. R. Neilsen, W. J. Wright, P. Fleming, A. Gibson, B. Fleming, C. W. Field, M. Hill, J. Mitchell,- H. F. Annis, F. Baker and "anonymous" 36 0 0 Sundries 30 1 6 Total £109 18 6

New Plymouth and Hawera.

W. A. O'Neill 10 0 L. Corbett 5 0 0 C. A. Thurston 10 0 N. G. Luxton 10 0 W. G. Cran 10 0 J. F. McCarthy 10 0 C. N. Gordge 1 0 0 George Andrews 10 0 S. F. Cox 10 0 Mrs. A. B. McCormick _ 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Playle 3 3 0 David Graham 2 0 0 Mr. and Mrs. S. Lissaman 2 10 0 Sundry amount 15 0 Total £22 8 0

Kaponga.