POSTMEN’S DRIVE

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24548, 23 April 1945, Page 4

POSTMEN’S DRIVE

SUBSTANTIAL &JM ' COLLECTED

FUND TO REMAIN OPEN FOE' WEEE’

The toial stmt collected -.in*.-thjs ■,-Poetn metis Drive for patriotic funds e®t Saturday readied lour figures.- These already mere than £4OW advance contributions before IS*- difiV* started, and the public response on 1 Saturday was described last.everurig by one of the trustees of theiund Cwr* E. Waiiac'e) 1 as -highlf; satlstactbitj'.,; The total of donation* >,will no* bo announced the the other, trustee <Dr J- j L fgfeiffj[S£!L r,‘ssat«sf later have been received" wlfi be kept open lor nwee£?«e ww purpose. o . About 4Wh coilectoo. , 'members ol the PosiOißco, Boy Scoa%att«^-gßgw workers, took part fat too. which was for fund* for servicemen and e sick and wounded men-and prl»oi^»bffwfa£ A house to.housp canvas* ' the metropolitan ’area, Sumner* Brighton, and Lytteltorvaod, the’ tors recervjed freat, fawwhadgj^j^wß. the ,week... A jirmtp ! «w*? werelentby motorist?, stnd faese w«e used as mobile departs ter the collectors brought back their 'ladenbags; The last coHdctpr ‘returned atiß p.m., and by 7.30 o.m. the wstiTOiroans had been counted by-tbe stall qfjbfe Chief Post Office. Members oaf tfae Posi and Telegraph Women’s ■ Association provided afternoon tea for the tors. ' 1 .. : Among tbe contributors were many returned soldiers, who eonpeeased them appreciation of the parcels that bad been provided frpm the funds cdUertetl; each year, A city florist who ha asked to provide a wrfeatn for members of the postmen’s branebon Ansae. Bay gave it, and asked that u the money should be included in the donations. At the Chmtchnrch Kospital a sttiwCkntial contribution came team Sister Oakley and the staff ed Ward 2, and also lhe civilian and service patients there An advance contribution of £SO was received from C. 8. before the drive started. Other generous advance contributions were received from the women’s auxiliary of ;tbe i'|Captesbury branch of the Navy League. W. T. CouMhard, Miss wE. Giedhill and Company, I>td4 MwjSp;!l((; Guy; E, G.. Mutton T <ito«flnl7jinswfi - Engineers, Ltd., Kodak (NiZ.), Ltd, J* A. Ehilßrbnd Ltd, Watson: Victor,"Ltd, H. |bmi and Company* Petersens, Ltd., Beadle .Welding and Engineering Company, Ltd, Ernest Adams, Ltd., H. R. lake, Crompton's* Ltd, H. M. Bannehr, Buncatt, Cotterfll and Company, J. B. Reese, Geoi HL Woods, Ltd.,.A. J. White, Ltd, John MacDougall and Company, Ltd, W. lu'King.