CHARITY COSTS MONEY

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 50, 7 June 1940, Page 34

CHARITY COSTS MONEY

Help For Finland Was Expensive HEN Finland was invaded, a wave of sympathy swept the United States. Motions were passed, dollars were raised, and Mr. Hoover was well on his way to beating all refugee-fund records of the last war when proposals to send all the money and goods to the struggling country were interrupted by the end of the war. Since then American sympathy has not quite managed to catch up on the march of time, but there have been some rather amusing incidents. One of the exhibitions arranged to raise funds for Finnish relief featured America’s six first-ranking professional tennis players: Budge, Vines, Barnes, Bell, Perry; and Tilden, now 47 years old. They played five matches in a fourhour exhibition for which admission prices ranged to £2, Expenses included (figures in round numbers): Services of three managers: £250. Travelling expenses: Perry from Los Angeles, £60; Vines from Miami, £40; Budge from Hollywood, Florida, £40; Barnes and Tilden from North. Carolina (a journey that costs ordinary travellers £9), £55 and £80; Bell from Forest Hills (a 3d subway ride), £10. Total, £285. Tilden, for "services": £60; Perry, for "winning an extra match with Budge": £10; entertainment atten. the show: £60. In the end, receipts totalling about . £2,000 were reduced by expenses totalling about £1,300, and the balance sheet had a note: "List of expenditures not complete." : : No Ski-ing In what promises to be one of the best seasons for ski-ing in a decade, there will be no ski-ing. Snow already covers all but the lowest hills, For the first time in many years the secondary school snow sports in the South Island at Ball Glacier were held in real snow. Supplies of snow are assured, but ail the ski-ers are off to the war. To the annual meeting of the Federated Mountain Clubs, the Taranaki delegate (Rod. Syme), said that only three out of more than thirty competitors in the championships last year were still available. The meeting accordingly decided to abandon the Centennial meeting. Aus.tralian teams will now be asked to cancel their arrangements. Teams from other countries had already dropped out.