FINE RESPONSE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 201, 3 June 1940, Page 6

FINE RESPONSE

SICK AND WOUNDED FUND. TOTAL OF £2911 TO DATE. THE ASHBURTON COLLECTIONS. The treasurer of the Ashburton section of the Sick. Wounded and Distress Fund (Mr R. O. Major) reported this morning that the collections bad so fay reached a total of £2911 4s 10d, with further sums still to come to hand. The latest acknowledgments are:— £ s. d.

M.H. <> 10 0 T. Riley. Cox Street (and similar amount each month for duration of war) ... ... ••• 010 0

The sale of tickets for the wardrobe was organised in Ashburton by Mi* A. H. Todd, and it resulted in the handsome sum of £l4O 2s 8d being added to the fund. Mr Todd organised teams of employees from the shops, working in conjunction with the Retailers’ Association, and members of the Ashburton Rotary Club sold further tickets in the streets on Friday evening. Of the tickets sent to Ashburton less than £4 worth were left when the hooks were sent hack to Christchurch. A fully-equipped caravan has been donated to the fund by Mir E. Hitchcock, of Hinds, the proceeds of sales of tickets for the vehicle to be credited to the Christchurch and Ashburton appeals. Mr H. W. H. Smallbone won a sack of oysters raffled on Thursday and Friday for the fund. l . DONATIONS AT HINDS. A horse, a. gun dog and a cattle dog are among several donations which have been given to the Hinds Red Cross Society for sale on behalf of the Sick, Wounded and Distress Fund, and the Society lias made an appeal for offers for them through Mrs A. S. Moffatt, at the Vicarage. The branch has already raised well over £IOO for the fund and other amounts are known to be ready to hand in. FLAG 500 PARTY. The sum of £5 5s has been handed to the Allenton sub-centre of the Red Cross Society for the, Sick, Wounded and Distress Fund by the Allenton Sports Club, as the proceeds of a flag 500 party held on Saturday evening.

DUNEDIN’S GREAT RESPONSE. £2600 IN ONE EVENING. DUNEDIN, This Day. Otago’s quote in the Bod Cross Fund of £25,000 has already been passed and the committee aiming at £30,000. At a concert in the Regent Theatre last evening over £2600 was taken. RATE OF £IO,OOO A DAY. fe THE DOMINION’S RESPONSE. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. New Zealand is contributing to the Sick, Wounded and Distress Fund at the rate of £IO,OOO a day. The appeal for £250,000 was launched on May 12 and up to last Friday £160,000 had been received. These facts were revealed to-day by Major Abel (Dominion treasurer of the appeal). He said that figures already in hand did not include the proceeds from harrow day in Christchurch. These were not yet completed, but he understood they would run to approximately '£lo,ooo. This effort was outstanding in New Zealand and was easily a record and one that would take a long time to beat.

Wakanm Patriotic Committee 234 IS G Car raffle sales 221 19 6 Wardrobe raffle sales 14G 2 s Hinds Red Cross Society ... 106 14 0 Lauriston Red Cross So0 ciety 102 17 S'pringburn Red Cross Sog 0 ciety 43 Thco. Staples’ Pupils’ re20 3 6 cital Westerfiekl Red Cross (ad14 5 G 0 ditional) Colonel John Findlay 17 o C. Cliallis (oyster raffle) ... 5 0 0 W. J. Anderson ... Mayfield Red Cross (addi5 0 2 0 0 tional) ... kIj Mrs H. E. Ramsay (Rest0 Room) 3 1 Mid-Canterbury Fed. W.I. 1 1 0 W. G. Gallagher 1 1 0 E.M.PI 1 0 0 N.H. 1 0 0 A. and N. Watson 1 0 0 Mr and Mrs T. Casey 1 0 0 C, W. Anderson ... 1 0 0