PATRIOTIC FUND APPEAL

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23589, 17 March 1942, Page 6

PATRIOTIC FUND APPEAL

♦ METROPOLITAN ZONE COMMITTEE Preliminary plans for the collection of the new Christchurch metropolitan zone's quota of the Canterbury patriotic appeal for £250,000 were made at a meeting of interested organisations last evening. The Mayor (Mr E. H. Andrews) presided over a large attendance, and all present were appointed a general zone committee. It was decided that the executive should consist of a representative each from the City Council, the Riccarton, Sumner, and Lyttelton Borough Councils, and the Navy League, the Returned Services’ Association, the British Sailors’ Society. the Union Jack Club, the Welcome Club, the Territorial Association, Air Force Relations, and the Commercial Travellers’ Association, wi.h the Mayor, the Mayoress (Miss E, C. Couzins), Mrs M. Thacker, and Messrs E. F. Willcox. W. S. Mac Gibbon, and J. S. Maybury. “It is a big order, but if there were ever a time when people should be prepared to give it is now.” said the . Mayor, in stating that the zone's quota was £104,000. Above all other calls on patriotic funds was the necessary assistance for men returning from overseas, said Mr W. S. Mac Gibbon. chairman of the standing committee of the Canterbury Patriotic Council. Every week applications for assistance came before the committee. There was a vast number of people who had given nothing of their wealth to patriotic funds, except by buying raffle tickets or putting small sums into collection boxes. The idea of the meeting was to form an organisation which, among other activities would make a concentrated effort to tap that store of wealth. In earlier appeals Christchurch had lagged behind other centres in Canterbury. That was not right, was not patriotic.