"OURDAY" RED CROSS APPEAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3179, 1 September 1917, Page 4

"OURDAY" RED CROSS APPEAL

: # "C.T.'S" SURPRISE PACKETS. In connection with the "Our Day" Red Cross appeal, tho commercial travellers, with their customary enthusiasm, are to 'trade in surprise packets in the streets of Wellington on October 5 and 6. As they intend each packet to be a genuine surprise they are asking the public to contribute the surprises. > In a circular the travellers say:—"Send in any of your belongings that you do not require, or that you feel you would lite turned into cash to aid so sorely afflict-. nI comrades. For this purposo nothing is too big and nothing is too small. Such articles as books, ornamonts, jewellery, musical instruments, cameras, eta., might hq mentioned, but it should be remembered that anything that can bo handled can be turned into cash under our ecborae." The commercial travellers have already received a number of gifts for Surprise Packet Day, and have also received donations towards the fund. So far. the cash donations promised are a 6 follow: G. C. Macindoo, ,£23; W. Higgins, £5; F. TV. Manton, £i; W. F. Larkin, .£5; E. Moult, .£3 35.; R. M. Brewer, .£5; C. \V. Rushbrook, £5; G. A. Phelps, £2 23.; H. A. Pidgeon, Is.; I". C. Archer, £1 Is.; C. Hunt, .£1 Is.