OPEN-AIR FUND.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 150, 31 July 1914, Page 10

OPEN-AIR FUND.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' GALA. To-morrow the streets of Christchurch will take on a somewhat festive air, when the commercial travellers' gala will bo held. The fancy dress parade has been most carefully thought out, and no trouble has been spared to make the various cofeturoes realistic and successful. The travellers, however, wish to impress on the public generally fcha+ they will have to do their share aud bring along their purses with the strings loosened.

Many of the devices adopted by the participants are no-val and some are startling. Dick Turpin, Sliylock, an Indian Rajah, Neptune, and Little Boy Blue will go hand in, hand through Christchurch streets. The combination of Dick Turpin and Shy lock is surely a happy augury, for if these two financiers" could not get something from the Christchurch public nobody could. The procession will have both numbers and quality, and a great deal of -work has been put into the various "make-ups." The- route of the procession, leavjng at 9.50, is as follows: Leave Latimer Square; down Madras Street up Cashe.l Street to Manchester. Street: proceed up it to Armagh Street, and then turn to the left and lown Colombo Street and through the Square, passing the Cathedral on the left; go down High Street, passing the Clock Tower, to A. J. White's corner; turn along Tuam Street and then to the right up Manchester Street to the Queen's Hotel corner; then by burning, to the left ajong Cashel Street, Oxford Terrace will be reached; the Terrace will be followed to Worcester Street and Cathedral Square will be reached. Here, at the back of the tram shelter, the pro- j j cession will be disbanded. The open-air concert, which is to be j held in the Square in the evening, will i commence at 7.30 p.m. and conclude at j about 9 o 'clock. By special permission j of the management of the Williamson Pantomime Company,* the choir of travellers will take the platform in the Theatre Royal during the interval. A ; special ode composed for the occasion will be sur.g the while the collectors make their appeal to the audience. The composition is as follows Everybody's giving it, giving it, giving it, Everybody's giving it, giving it, giving it, See that gay old party—don't you stare, Watch him throw liis money in Ijhe air. Empty Ms pockets—well, I declare, ! It's a quid, it's a quid, it's a quid. j Everybody's giving it, giving it, giving it. Everybody's giving it, giving it, giving it. Ain't such - goodness, touching your heart?: Don't you.think you'd better part? Shake it up, shake it up, make a start —■ Everybody's giving jit; how:. A bag of sheets has been sent, by the secretary of the; Commercial Travellers' y A^JfociVti()irlto i each' child' in the Bottle Lake Hospital. 1 TOTAL SUBSCRIBED. .; • TJip fund,, had* .nov.'jeacned' a t6tal of £1550) v but beforethe financial success of the be raised. - A - special effort is being- made to reaeh the slim needed, and. after to : morrow night the work should be well, on the way to the second thousand. . ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS. Utility Poultry Club's Debate, £4 16/-; Tai Tapu School, £l;-8/6; Otaahua, School, 7/6; Russell's Flat School, £1 3/. Box Collections — / ...... £ s. d. Cook and Sons 0 6 6 Walker '& (chemist) .. .. 0 3 5 Broadway's (Square) ' 1 14 6 Broadway's (High Street) 015 11 Clark Bros. .... .. 0 £ll Empire Hotel .... .. 6 211 West End Tobacconist .. 013 3 Mr'Alpe . . .. .. .. 0 611 ' Total .. .. £4 5 4