CARNIVAL RIVALRY

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 137, 6 March 1941, Page 10

CARNIVAL RIVALRY

Commerce Queen Leads

Wit'll the six queen committees of the Victory Queeu Carnival working hard, public interest is being maintained in the struggle for premier place on the progress voting list. The “barometer” outside “The Dominion” Building showed the order up to noon yesterday to be ns follows: — Commerce (Miss Patricia Luckie), 100,000. Transport (Miss Paddy Hope Gibbous), 70,000. Public Services (Miss Joan Young), 00,000. Movie (Mrs. A. B. Fuller), 50,000.

Fighting Services (Sister Molly Mahoney), 20,000. Hutt Valley (Mrs. E. T. W. Love), 10,000. The carnival organizers acknowledge a donation of £5O from the C. and A. Odlin Timber and Hardware Company, Ltd., for the Commerce Queen, and a cheque for £3OO from the Wellington Racing Club, to be distributed equally among lhe six queens. The results of the carnival to date are regarded by the committees as satisfactory, and it is hoped that the returns in hand up to and including the special effort last weekend will total £lO.OOO.

Many Activities With One Object

The executive of the big patriotic drive now at its height in Wellington emphasizes that every penny contributed to any of the various queen activities, such as concerts, parties, street days and entertainments of all kinds, will find its way to the main patriotic fund for the assistance of soldiers and their dependants where the necessity is established. The only object of all the numerous carnival activities is to rsti.se Wellington'!. share —£100.000— of the total patriotic fund of £1,000,000. No function is held without the authority of one of the various queen or princess committees or the executive committee, and every person who attends the entertainments organized by the committees, or makes u donation, is contributing to that fund. The executive gratefully acknowledges Wellington's magnificent response up to the present and expresses its confidence that it will not only be maintained but. will grow as the queen enrniva' progresses. It is emphtrsized that any carnival activity, however modest, is helping the drive and all who assist in these activities, either with their services or their money, are pushing the drive to its goal.

Princess Garden Party

A garden party and night carnival, in support of the I'pper Hutt princess, will bo hold at Mr. S. Blackley's residence, lleiclaunga, on Saturday. The I-ppcv Hutt and 'Trentham Military bands will be in attendance.