It wns stated on Saturday by Mr. .1. Abel, honorary Dominion organizer lor the £1,000.000 patriotic appeal, that there was about £30,000 required. The provincial figures, he said, were about the same as the previous week. Auckland had advanced its total to more than £230,000, principally as a result of Friday’s monster procession, when nearly £lO,OOO was collected. In spite of a heavy downpour of rain during the procession, which comprised 100 floats, il carried on. and after it had passed Queen Street was almost a solid mass of people. The commercial travellers sold 00.000 mystery envelopes before midday.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 259, 29 July 1941, Page 10
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