Cared For The Pennies
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 31. A delighted Braille week collector staggered from the home of Mr and Mrs J. Hawkins, at Herne Bay. on Saturday with a 111-gallon jar full of pennies and weighing more than lewt. The £22 4s in the jar was added to £31,000 col-
iected in the Auckland metropolitan area by the New Zealand Foundation for the Blind. Mr Hawkins said that he and his family had been throwing odd coppers into the jar since December. “We had a standing bet with our friends that if anyone could carry it around the block they
could have It,” said Mr Hawkins. “No-one ever took us up on it “We had given our envelope donation on Saturday when we thought of the jar in the corner so we called the collector back,” he said. Mr Hawkins said he was keen to get the jar back to start to fill it again.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31126, 1 August 1966, Page 1
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