Generous response
Canterbury people gave almost 10 per cent of the total collected throughout New Zealand in this year’s appeal for the Society for the Intellectually Handicapped. New Zealanders gave a record $896,900 in the appeal. Of this Canterbury’s contribution was $78,137 — $6560 more than the 1979 total, and an increase for the area of more than 9 per cent. The society’s national appeal chairman (Mr W. P. Devine) said that the
amount raised in the last five years had risen from $550,000 to $896,000. However, in the same period total expenditure had risen from about $3 million to more than $lO million. “While this means that the appeal proceeds are a small proportion of our total running costs, the public’s unfailing support represents a vital" contribution to our work,” he said. “This tremendous response is a continuing endorsement by the public of the I.H.C.’s work at the local level.”
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