$270,000 raised to fight polio
.The northern. South Island district of Rotary International has raised more than $270,000 for the organisation s polio appeal. The district governor, Mr Gerald Austin, said the 33 clubs in the district, which stretches north of the Waimakariri River to Nelson, Marlborough and the West Coast, as well as Christchurch, had surpassed its target collection of $276,000. The world-wide collection of money to fight polio totalled $321 million. New Zealand Rotary clubs exceeded their estimated total 134 per cent when they managed to collect $2.1 million. Rotary’s drive for polio funds was in response to a U.N.I.C.E.F and World Health Organisations plan to immunise all children against polio by 1990.
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