PATRIOTIC FUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 173, 24 July 1941, Page 5

PATRIOTIC FUND

. WEEK-END CARNIVAL MONSTER CITY PROCESSION All groups assisting in the Fight ,jing Forces patriotic appeal arc uniting over the week-end in ar effort to reach the Auckland objec tive of £127,000 before the campaign , J winds up. '< A big programme has been ' arranged for to-morrow, with the chief attraction a monster proees jsion consisting of over 100 decor liated floats with several bands ant •iall the extras in spectacle anc ! j"stunts' , that go to make a gale jshow. '1...

The commercial travellers of Auckland have arranged for the sale jof 00,000 mystery envelopes, in I which there will be many prizes times the value of the cost. lln the Town Hall there is to be a I "Paddy's Market' , and fair, which Hi will run from about two o'clock in "■the afternoon until 9.:50 or 10 p.m. Should the weather remain unfavourable, a decision will be made at t"inine o'clock in the morning as to e'whether the procession will be carn'ried out or not. but the remainder , of the programme is to go on '"if it -"snows. n j On Saturday at Alexandra Park the combined sports bodies of Auckniland are putting on what should be lan outstanding gymkhana when e isports of all kinds will be carried Hout, Including special trotting races, r-jdog races and horse jumping. At ( j|E(len Park on the following afternoon massed bands will present a programme, which is said to a]be even better than the outstanding effort made last year.