"OUR DAY"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 26, 25 October 1918, Page 6

"OUR DAY"

GREY SKIES, RAIN AND BITTER WIND

WOMEN WORKERS BRAVE THE

ELEMENTS

It was indeed unfortunate that tlio weather, so consistently unruly of late, should have so effectually blighted "Our Day" yesterday. There is nothing like grey skies and bitterly cold weather to button up people's pockets. Had the •/feather yesterday been bright and warn), the ladies who stood so patiently throughout the day on windy street corners, with numbed fingers, would have been rushed by men, old and young, eager to buy their Bed Cross emblems at any price. But with gloomy skies and an icy breeze that bit to the 'bone the spirit of/Riving was not abroad. So "Our Day" suffered. The public will have to make up for ii next time. That tfie appeal was as successful as it was is due to the courageous manner in which the ladies stuck it out. It was a miserable task under the circumstances, but like good soldiers they hung on to their posts, with Spartan-like determination, and returned to their homes between 5 p.m. and G p.m. with the gratifying knowledge that their duty had been done. All they asked people to do was to bny badges for the modest shilling or paper emblems of the Eed Cross for tho windows at Is. and 53. The headquarters of the movement were located next ths Commercial Bank en Lambton Quay. There the money was paid in by collectors all day Ion;?, and wag counted as it came by Mr. Thomas Bush and his assistants. . \ Cash sales and ■ donations received at the offices for tho day totalled £Wl 125., and the sum received at eialls was ,£27't ■la. 9d., or a total of dCGGO l(>s. 9d. Details of the takings of the various stalls are-.-Post Office (lire. Corliss), JCS Gs. 3d.; Boulcott Street (Mrs. Gamble), ,£2O. Woodward Street and Kirkcaldie and Stains (Mrs. Massey), Ml Is. 10d.; Kelburn Tram- (Mrs. Nathan and Mrs. Firth), JB2& 2s. 3d.; Kelburn Kiosk (Mrs. Fulton), £1 12s. 3d.; Bank of New Zealand- Corner (Mrs. Cartton and Mrs. M'Donald), .£23 Is.; Lambton Station (Nurse liverott), ill 2s. IOd.; Government Buildings (Mrs. Pearce and Mrs. Wilfcrd), £5i 19s. Id.; Courtenay Place (Mrs. Geddis), .£l3; Winder's Corner (Mrs. Luke),'jß4 11s. 2d.j Veitch and Allan's Corner (Mrs. Cornish), .£7 9s. 9d.

GOOD FOE BULLS! Mr. T. Mansell, who has been acting ns secretary and treasurer of the Rea Cross "Our Day" appeal for the Bulls, Sandon, and Ohakea district (Rnngitikei), was in Wellington yesterday. Ho etatcs that the sum of ,£I2OO has been raised in the districts mentioned, and he is quite satisfied that in doing eo his part of the country is sustaining its excellent reputatiou for patriotism.