SICK AND WOUNDED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 194, 25 May 1940, Page 4

SICK AND WOUNDED.

STREET APPEAL TOTALS £2lB 8S 9d Ashburton’s fine response. Ashburton people yesterday responded in their usual generous manner to the street appeal in aid of the Sick, Wounded and Distress Fund. A sum of £2lB 8s 9d was raised, exclusive of the proceeds of three raffles which will be drawn at the end of the month. Donations of oyer 10s in cheque form or money were made during the day as follows £ s. d. C. G. de C. Drury ...- ... 10 10 0 W. Patching, Ltd. ... ... 5 5 0 Anonymous ... ... 50 0 Four Anonymous Donations 4 0 0 Miss Cruickshank ... ... 3 3 0 Baker Bros., King 3 3 0 G. H. Wilson 0 Mrs Adams ••• 110 J. H. Chapman ... ... 110 A. Gregory ... ... ' 10 0 Mrs A. Gregory 10 0

10/- each—Mrs Hedges, Mrs R. C. Jeffs, G. Cartwright L. Armstrong. A cheque of £5 for the Red Cross Society and a large parcel of new material for bandages were forwarded by anonymous donors.

GOOD TOTAL TO DATE. SUM OF £ll6B IN HAND. Mainly as a result of the street collection made yesterday, the Ashburton section of the Sick, Wounded and Distress Fund has reached a total of £ll6B Gs lid. The copper trail conducted by the children of the Borough School on three days of this week brought in the handsome sum of £7 16s sd. The latest donations are:— £ s. d. Street collection 218 8 9 J. H. Grigg .... 60 0 0 Mrs J. H. Grigg ... ... 60 0 0 Borough School Copper Trail 716 5 Borough Council Staff ... 511 0 I. Canning ... 2 00 D. W. Teppett ... ... 2 0 0 DOMINION’S GOOD RESPONSE. TOTAL OF £70,000 TO pATE WELLINGTON, May 24. The Dominion total for the Sick and Wounded Fund now stands at £68,680, Miscellaneous amounts and donations sent direct to the Patriotic Funds Board will swell the total to more than £70,000. ■ • v: The total is made up as follows: — Canterbury, £17,300; Wellington, £15,O0O; Auckland, £14,430: Napier, \£6200; Dunedin, £5500; Palmerston North, £5000; Taranaki, £3000: Wanganui, £1400; Gisborne £500; Blenheim, £350.