£156 RAISED.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20543, 11 May 1932, Page 13

£156 RAISED.

STUDENTS' COLLECTION. A GRATIFYING RESULT. From 7.45 o'clock til] noon yesterday, students armed with collection boxes mounted guard at strategic corners of the City in an appeal for the Mayor's Coal and Blanket Fund. The collectors, who were mostly "women, were organised in groups of thirty, one group only being out at a time. This greatly facilitated the task of checking up the takings, and also ensured that no collector was unduly fatigued. Between eight and'nine o'clock, when people were on their way to work, was, of courser the time when most of the collecting was done. The first group yielded £22, and half-crowns and florins were quite frequently slipped into the boxes, in addition to a great deal of the usual small change. The collectors do not appear to hare received any notes, but the substantial sum of £24 was raised in cheques, and welcome gifts were received from two City firms in the shape of eleven blankets valued at £l3 and a ton of coal. The legal "writs" served on prominent business men by the Students' Association have so far been successful to the extent of £3O, and the chief organiser, Mr J. G. D. Ward, expressed himself as highly satisfied with, the results yielded in such a short time, the totnl amount raised by noon from the collecting and the "writs" being £156. Arrangements were in the hands of a committee comnrising Messrs J. G. T>. Ward and J. FT. Smith, and Misses S. Tennent, M. Hirie, B. Lucas,' and Harper.