ALL RECORDS SHATTERED!

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 308, 28 December 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)

ALL RECORDS SHATTERED!

£400 IN TEN WEEKS

Swinging to a triumphant close for the Christmas holidays, with a total of nearly four hundred pounds, our Shilling Fund creates a record and is a tribute to the earnest desire or, the part of the young people of the province to play their part ,n the Empires struggle for freedom- The total represents an averageofWarJy fifty pounds a week—over five pounds every twenty-four hours—from the date of the first announcement. A record and an achievement of high order.

Indications that the closing week of the 1940 campaign would see us reach our set objective of £300 were given early in the week, when a prefect from the Kowhai Intermediate School arrived with a cheque for £20, This, as the letter below explains, is a particularly fine gift because it is an extension of an interesting service to other people; moreover it comes at a time when they have been busy qn work associated with the development of their own school. Under such circumstances support for our drive for funds is doubly pleasing but then, that is only what one would expect from a school with the motto Fiat Lux-r—Service With Honour. A special thrill was the reward of the prefect who brought in the cheque, for circumstances made it possible for him to be present when Sir Ernest Davis signed the Certificate of Service for his school. At this stage we skipped over our three hundred pound hurdle and headed for the £400 mark for the next, and most outstanding gift of the week, was the donation of £54 received from the Epsom School. Then our old friends of Dominion Road topped off their year's work with a final gift of £46 12/9. This was the result of an activity arranged and run by members of the energetic adult committee which is sponsoring all the patriotic work of the school. The kindly donor of the model yacht and the motor boat will no doubt be glad to learn that his fine gifts resulted in so much money being added to the school total and all that that money represents in cheer to soldiers and their kin. This brings the amount subscribed by the school for this year (or rather, so far as we are concerned, for the last ten weeks) to th" astqunding total of £145 I l/l. This figure in itself conveys its own compliment without further expression by mere words. But, nevertheless, we must say ''Congratulations — well done, Dominion Road." The efforts of the small cpuntry schools are always sincerely appreciated. To raise large sums of mqney with the aid of large numbers of people —especially in the towp»—•• an easier matter than raising smaller amount* when there are less people |p subscribe. Thus to-day's gifts from Swanson, where the pupils of Standards 1., 11. and 111. collected twenty-one shillings, and from Waitakaruru School, which sent in one pound, are valued just as much as the larger amounts raised bv schools with r °U» finning into the hundreds. Wejl dpne, country folk, and thank you for ypur assistance. Our friends at Point Chevalier, the Meola Club, are this week credited with a further £1 5/3, thus raising their total to over £2. Thep Dawn and Rayma Tilly, of Waihi. swelled their previous total by another jpft, this time by no less than $1 3/6. The happy story of their little concert is told below. The enterprise of Patricia Donaldson and her spWl pal, , A /V brought us in a further *! 10/7. Judging from the account elsewhere on this page, Pat and hey friends had a very happy time as wejl as raising such a splendid amount pf T>°ney ip threepences and sixpences. Another concert was that arranged by the Standard HI. and IV. girls of the Otahuhu School, who are already well known as Wendy's Sunbeam*. So altogether this has been * splendid week and proyic(e« » fitting climax to our' campaign tp raire fund* to help those upon wfepm the *var is adding a double burden- N°W w * K° into recess until after the school h°"days, when we know that everyone will return to this particular Job of service to others with renewed vigour.