It takes the cake

Press, 13 May 1981, Page 28

It takes the cake

Sports teams have found many novel ways of funding trips, and the mothers of players in the Shirley Boys’ High School first hockey XI have added one more to the list of unusual fund-raisers. When the team left last week for a two week tour of the Sydney area, it was assisted by $lOOO raised by the mothers from the sale of hundreds of dozens of lamingtons. The team decided late last year to make the trip so quick fund-raising was needed. The parents guaranteed the fares of the players, but money was needed for accommodation, meals and transport. For eight weeks on Thursday evenings, the mothers made 120 dozen lamingtons to order to significantly boost the team’s fund. Other

fund raisers were a garage sale, a couple of film evenings, and the sale of several thousand biros.

The idea to use lamingtons as a fund raiser came from a Port Kembla school team which visited New Zealand last year. It financed its entire trip by the sale of 16,000 dozen.

Shirley will play eight games in the Lithgow, Campbelltown, Mossvale and Gosford areas against school teams. It has its strongest side for several years, said its coach, Frank Wood. Many of the team are former Canterbury Hatch Cup representatives: Mr Wood hopes the team will be selected to play in the Rankin Cup tournament, the major secondary schoolboys’ hockey tournament, in the August holidays