Fund-raising times found to clash

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32635, 17 June 1971, Page 12

Fund-raising times found to clash

A national car sticker campaign which was to be run this year by Jaycees to raise money for the 1974 Commonwealth Games has struck a serious snag.

The campaign, on which a good deal of preliminary work has been done, was to have begun in August aftet the Games appeal had ended. However, at a meeting last evening of the Games organising committee, Mr C. L. S. Cross, the chairman of the New Zealand Olympic and British Commonwealth Games Association, said his body also had plans well advanced on a similar project, also to begin in August, to raise money for the send-

ing of the New Zealand team to the Munich Olympic Games next year. Mr Cross said he only learnt yesterday morning of the Christchurch scheme and he asked that the N.Z.0.B.C.G. campaign be given preference. He said that to assist the 1974 appeal his organisation had not carried out any fund-raising recently and there was now some urgency in raising money for next year’s Olympics.

He also reminded members that in order not to harm the Christchurch fund-raising the N.Z.0.8.C.A. had deferred, until after 1974 a scheme to implement a slm foundation, which would cover travel., costs for all future New Zealand Games teams. The car sticker campaign planned by the N.Z.0.8.C.A--would realise about $BO,OOO and it was vital that the money be raised this year so that the individual sports associations would know where they stood in regard to the money they would have to find to send the New. Zealand team to Munich next year, said Mr Cross. The chairman of the committee (Mr R. S. Scott) said it was most unfortunate that such a conflict had arisen and he asked that it be left to the executive committee, of which Mr Cross is a mem- ‘ ber, to examine the matter. ; This was agreed to.