GOOD RESPONSE
TO CHRISTMAS PATRIOTIC APPEAL ORGANISER’S PRELIMINARY REPORT. DONATIONS REACH HIGH AVERAGE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The first details of the results of the Christmas Day patriotic envelope appeal are supplied by the hon Dominion organiser, Major Abel, who says that, as small amounts are still being sent in, the figures are not final, but can be taken as a fair indication. The amount notified from 18 postal centres is approximately £15,000. Of 410.000 envelopes sent out, only some 37,000 were returned, but these showed the remarkably high average of over 8s 4d each. Donations og £lO or more were quite common. A few donations of £2O were received and a very large number of £5 donations. The largest donation so far recorded was £5O, from Westport. A most outstanding and pleasing result of the appeal was a donation from the Chatham Islands, where envelopes were not sent. The Jockey Club there sponsored the appeal, and so far has raised £lO5, representing an average of over three shillings a head of the population.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1942, Page 4
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176GOOD RESPONSE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1942, Page 4
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