Youngsters' trust fund launched

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 6, 2 July 1985, Page 1

Youngsters' trust fund launched

Plans for a trust fund, which is to be established to help the young people of Raetihi, were announced by film producer Larry Parr, at a charity dinner in the town last week.

The trust will be launched next month with a charity film premier of one of Larry Parr's films. The title of the film — which will be shown for the first time in New Zealand — has not yet been released. Once the fund is launched, raffles will be drawn weekly in the Ruapehu Hotel and all proceeds will be paid into the trust. The trust will fund sporting, educational and other trips for youngsters of Raetihi. Mr Parr's mother, Mrs Iris Parr, who runs the Ruapehu Hotel with her

husband Ray, stated this week that the fund would give the town's youngsters greater' opportunities. Her husband added that money from the fund would help sporting groups and individuals, who currently have to raise all their own funds to go away to compete. It would also help finance community projects which ' would benefit children. Mr Parr said he hopes to build the fund up to three or four thousand dollars in a short space of time and then continue to add approximately one hundred dollars per week.