STREET APPEAL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 145, 21 June 1941, Page 8

STREET APPEAL

OVER £2600 ALREADY MANY RETURNS TO COUNT With returns from outside local bodies and the Town Hall still to be added, more than £2000 has already been counted as a result of one of the largest and best-organised street appeals which was held yesterday by group two (motion pictures and entertainments) and group five (transport and public bodies) in the ..iother campaign for the Fightin" >■ uccs Fund. Of this sum about Ut») was raised by the boroughs. Yesterday was given over to carnival. and more than 1000 helpers with collection . and art union tickets were stationed in the city and suburbs to entice the passersby. There were added attractions to the day in the form of a procession which included decorated barrows. Tickets issued for donations made to the collection boxes were numbered for the purpose of a draw for 50 double seats at Auckland theatres presented by the motion pictures group in appreciation of the public's response. Appreciation of the generous support given to the appeal was expressed today by the chairman of group five. Mr. N. M. Speer, who also paid tribute to the work of the helpers. The route of the midday procession yesterday was lined with thousands of people. Fed by the Papakura Camp Band and "Britannia" and "l;ncle Sam" on horseback, the parade was more than a mile long and colour and spectacle were provided by costumed figures who supplied the humour that kept the public laughing. The parade of floats moved up Queen Street and halfway along Karangahape Road, returning by the same route. The barrows, which were a feature of the show, and which were supplied with goods donated by business firms, dispersed at the Town Hall and their wares were peddled in various parts of the city. Sales by auction, raffles, vaudeville acts and dancing were held in the Town Hall in the evening and attracted a large attendance. Awards in the parade were:— Best decorated barrow. Mount Eden Borough Council 1, Mount Albert Borough Council 2. Best original barrow: Auckland Electric Power Board 1, Auckland City Council 2. Ladies' section: Auckland Electric Power Board 1. J. J. Nivea and Company 2. Schools and other organisations: Napier Street School 1, St. Mathias Boy Scouts 2. Best fleet of barrows: Auckland Hockey Association. Special awards of merit: jPopular Pie Company, Seabrook, I Fowlds and Company, and Master C. Brown, aged four, who paraded with his trolley and collected i' 3 12/. | Awards for floats: Strand Theatre 1, Majestic Theatre 2. Civic Theatre 'highly recommended. The Strand and Majestic Theatres have handed [back their prize money to the cami paign.