WORLD REFUGEE YEAR APPEAL

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29193, 2 May 1960, Page 13

WORLD REFUGEE YEAR APPEAL

Progress Results In Canterbury

Returns already available from last Saturday’s house-to-house collection for World Refugee Year show every indication that Christchurch and North Canterbury totals will exceed those of previous years and that the expected target of £15,000 will be reached. In Christchurch last evening the district organiser for C.0.R.5.0. (Mr G. H. Coley) said that the response to the appeal had been most encouraging. "The collectors met with very generous giving wherever they called. We are quite thrilled with the reaction of John Citizen and his wife to this project,” he said. Final returns amounting to £l4OO had been received so far from 29 of the 85 areas covered by collectors in Christchurch last Saturday, said Mr Coley. In addition the following North Canterbury districts had sent in progress figures: Rangiora £3OO, Faiapoi £lB5, Kaikoura £5O, Akaroa £3B, Oxford £67. This gives a total to date of £2040 for the combined Christ-church-North Canterbury district. Final figures are expected to be available later this week. During last Saturday’s houseto house appeal three Papanui streets were unavoidably excluded. Special arrangements have been made for collectors to cover, next Saturday, May 7, Searells road, and College and Urunga avenues. Other persons who may have been inadvertently missed during the collections are asked to send any contributions to C.0.R.5.0., Box 1905, Christchurch, and accept the apologies of the organisers. £16,600 From Auckland

An estimated total of £16,600, about £l5OO more than last year’s record figure, was collected in Auckland, according to a Press Association message. Many large cheques are expected in the mail this week to swell the total, while a number of collection boxes have not yet been received by C.0.R.5.0. headquarters. The Wellington district’s contribution to Corso this year stands at £7979. With returns from three areas still outstanding, the figure represents a 40 per cent, increase on last year. Hutt Valley residents gave £3113, a 20 per cent increase on the 1959 collection. The Invercargill collection totalled £2270 5s 4d. Although the total is about £3OO less than last year, it is thought that the gap will almost be bridged when the Otatara area is canvassed. Not included in the total is a Japanese note and a Bank of England note handed to collectors. In Timaru city and suburbs £lOB2 was handed to collectors, compared with £1095 last year.

GIRLS’ LIFE BRIGADE Annual Church Parade More than 800 officers and girls of the Girls’ Life Brigade marched from Cranmer square to the Durham street Methodist Church yesterday for the annual church parade of the First Christchurch Division of the brigade. The parade was led by the divisional colours and the Union flag. At the church a service was conducted by the Rev. L. V. Wiling. The Minister of Social Services (Miss Howard) was the guest of honour. A special offering to be sent to the Girls’ Life Brigade companies of the Niue "lands was taken up during the service. .At the conclusion of the serJce Miss Howard, Mrs T. H. Carr, Major E. Clemens, Mr Wiling and Major Inglis, the divisional officer commanding cadets, i°ok the salute at the march past °f the three battalions.

Boys’ High School P.T.A. Reunion

The Christchurch Boys’ High School Parent-Teacher Association held a special reunion on Saturday evening to mark its twenty-fifth anniversary of the association. Two hundred past members of the executive were entertained at a social evening “eld in the school hall. On a-rival guests were received 2 Mr H. W. Jennings, president ®f the association, and Mrs Jen«mgs, and by Mr C. F. S. Caldwell, headmaster of the school, Mrs Caldwell. I