MAYOR'S GRATITUDE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 189, 12 August 1933, Page 10

MAYOR'S GRATITUDE.

AID GIVEN BY THE PUBLIC.

DETAILS OF THE VOTING.

The coronation brought the week to a close, except for the ball to be held at the Peter Pan this evening, when the whole coronation is to be re-enacted. >" The sum of £10,000 hoped for has been exceeded, and in a speech prior to the •ceremony the Mayor, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, thanked all who had helped to raise such a sum for the relief of distress. Final details of the votes, with the amounts raised on behalf of the different queens, are as under: — H £ s. d. Miss Shirley Watkins (Sports) .600,392 2,438 O 8 Miss Elizabeth Burges Watson (United . Services) 437,426 1,792 3: 0 Miss Fiona Mackenzie (Professions) ... 341,178 1,403 16 6 Miss Marjoric Simpson (Electricity and Trams).... 281,200 1,166 1 1 Miss Adele Hogan (Transport) • .... -64,007 1,093. 3 7 Miss Betty Endean (Wholesale) .... 175,127 729 0 5 Miss Stella Zahara (Retail) 112,G5S 468 14 2 Miss Joyce Wright „ (Arts) 105,466 438 7 0 Miss Ita Sheehan ■ ' (Civil Service) 73,737 304 11 9 Miss Thora Henderson (Radio) 45.364 193 1 4 £10,026 19 6 The Mayor said he appreciated the way in which the public of Auckland had responded to the appeal. He spoke not only for the City Council, but also for the local mayors, their councils and all who had been connected with the relief of distress. Especially he thanked the queens, whose task, he said had not been particularly enviable. He appreciated their fine sense of citizenship. He also thanked Mr. D. D. McDonald. "Though naturally he is "being paid for what he. has done," added Mr. Hutchison, "I would not have taken his job for double what he is getting out of it."

Could the figures be known, Mr. Hutchison said, the people would be surprised at the amount of money that had been circulated as a. result of the various functions. "It may be that some businesses have suffered because of this flow of money in one direction," he added, "and the anti-climax that follows may possibly have a bad effect on certain businesses, particularly the retail, but I am certain it will soon pass and that business will return not merely, to normality,bbus.t s . to ..something better than we have experienced in the last few; years. 5 '-