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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 68, 18 September 1917, Page 8

The balance-sheet in connection with Violet Day (10th August) has been audited by Mr. A. Maurice Anderson, A.I. A.N.Z., who has certified to its correctness. The receipts totalled £1870 15s lOd, made up as follows :—Collection boxes, £1072 18s 9d ; Commercial Travellers* Association, £642 Is 3d; donations, £155 15s lOd. The expenditure amounted to £37 4s Id, made of printing, advertising, cart hire, etc., and there is £1833 11s 9d available for the British Bed Cross and Order of St. John for comforts for sick and wounded New Zealand soldiers. While supervising the construction of a retaining wall at the Terrace Gad yesterday a warder named William Goddard, a married man, received an injury to his right leg. He was attending to the scaffolding when the ladder on which he was standing collapsed.