Appeal Total Now £3776

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31099, 30 June 1966, Page 14

Appeal Total Now £3776

More than £3776 has been received in Christchurch for the John Harrison Memorial Fund, in response to the national appeal to assist Mr Harrison’s wife and two infant children.

A letter from Jimmy Baker, on behalf of the Standard Four class at Tauranga South School, arrived at “The Press” yesterday. It read:

“Before Captain Scott perished in Antarctica he wrote, ‘For God’s sake look after our people.’ When Mr John Harrison died at Otira last week he didn’t have time to make such an appeal. So shouldn’t we help his family just as we are helping the Kaitawa dependents? “We have discussed this in class and our teacher says that South Island people are generous and will do what is needed, but we think that John Harrison was a very noble hero and that all New Zealanders should be able to share in the privilege of helping his wife and children.

“We enclose ten shillings. Will you please pass it on?”

This donation was among others amounting to £694, received by “The Press” yesterday. The money will be forwarded today to the trustees, who will issue receipts. The trustees are Sir Edmund Hillary, president of the New Zealand Alpine Club; Mr N. D. Hardie, a friend of Mr Harrison; Mr Robin Harrison, the dead man’s brother; Mr G. T. Wiggs, chairman of directors of the advertising firm of

Inglis Wright, Ltd., by which Mr Harrison was once employed; and Mr A. H. McCormack, a Christchurch public accountant. Members of the Christchurch Rotary Club yesterday gave £5OO for the fund. Lane, Walker, Rudkin, Ltd., gave £lOO, and a similar sum ' came from an anonymous ■ donor. Gifts amounting to £lOO were sent in by three trotting clubs. The New Zealand : Metropolitan Trotting Club gave £5O, and the Canterbury Park and New Brighton Trotting Clubs, £25 each. I Other contributions included £5O from the Canterbury i Malting Company, Ltd., and (from Mrs L. J. Cropp, £25 from Stewart Beckett and Company and from each of three anonymous donors, £2O from the National Council of Churches in New Zealand and from an anonymous donor, llgns from Mr H. C. Crossland, lOgns from the Disabled Servicemen’s Reestablishment League and (from Buxton, Donald Du ICroz and Company, Ltd., and (£lO from Dr. S. B. Thomson, Dr. J. Nihotte, of Seddon, Mr J. Paton, Mr and Mrs R. H. Ensor and family, and an anonymous donor A contribution was also rece’ved from Mr L. R. Bloxham, one of the Christchurch journalists who reported the rescue attempt.