A NOVEL CHARITY.
j By a simple but ingenious device the' Association for Feeding Hungry ! Children raised nearly £2OO in Vii enna in the past twelve months. It is the custom (says a correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette) in the Vicuna restaurants to furnish guests with the amount of .their bills on small ©lips of paper! . Some clever member of the Association hit upon the plan of. selling. the restaurantkeepers blocks of a hundred yellow slips, costing two hellers (one-fifth 1 of a penny) each. It was, of course, optional with the customer to have a bill on a yellow slip or not, but few people will object to contributing a fifth of a penny to a deserving charity, especially at the moment they have enjoyed a 'good lunch or dinner. And eo "the scheme proved a success, for 23,203 blocks of yellow slips were eold in a year, and 46,406 crowns (£1933) came into the funds of the Association. Part of the sum was spent on kitchen and crockery-ware, and the remainder provided over 100,000 hot dinners fr " the school-children. About 1000 chi dren were-fed daily.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 July 1913, Page 6
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188A NOVEL CHARITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 July 1913, Page 6
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