$4500 Raised By Fair, Talent Scheme

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32117, 13 October 1969, Page 14

$4500 Raised By Fair, Talent Scheme

About $4500 is expected from the fair organised by the Canterbury battalion of the Boys* Brigade on Saturday and the talent scheme, which concluded on Saturday.

Most of the money will go to the fund for the $60,000 convention centre to be built at the brigade camp at Waipara A small percentage will be spent on company administration and equipment. “The $4500 figure is an estimate only, as there are still 12 companies to make their returns for the talent scheme,” Mr M. E. Lloyd, the fund-raising convenor, said yesterday. “Although the trek on Saturday morning was not sponsored on a battalion basis, several companies obtained sponsors and used it as part of their talent scheme. Their final talent figures will not be available until ail the money has been obtained from their sponsors." He said the fair at the Opawa School was very well patronised, with parking difficult to obtain several blocks from the school. The total proceeds from the fair amounted to $l5OO.

More than 500 team and company members took part in the annual trek over the Port Hills on Saturday morning. This was a smaller number than in the previous three years, when the trek had been sponsored on a battalion basis. The company sections walked 20 miles, and the younger team section boys 12 miles. The treks started and finished at the Opawa School.

For the talent schmne, a $1 note was issued to each member of the Canterbury Battalion at the end of April. Each member had to multiply his dollar as many times as possible before October 11. . "Numerous methods, such as buying and selling goods, Offering services, cleaning and polishing cars, and planting seeds and selling the plants, had been used to multiply the dollar,” Mr Lloyd said.

Some companies put their money into group schemes. The most successful company up to Saturday afternoon was the 10th Christchurch, junior section, associated with the Rugby Street Methodist Church. This company multiplied its talent money nearly six times.

In second place was the 7th Christchurch company section (Northcote), which multiplied its talent money five and a half times. The company raising the moot money up to Saturday was the 23rd Christchurch, associated with. St Columba Presbyterian Church. Shirley. The company raised $212 and multiplied its talent money three and three quarter times. “On behalf of the battalion I would like to thank those who supported the talent scheme and the fair on Saturday,” Mr Lloyd said. “Special thanks are due to the St John Ambulance Brigade, which manned first aid posts along the trek routes and petrolled the fair grounds."