SICK AND WOUNDED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 136, 10 June 1940, Page 11

SICK AND WOUNDED

SPLENDID EFFORT

rALL RECORDS BROKEN

HOPE THAT £300,000 WILL BE EXCEEDED

Ely raising.a quarter of a million pounds in less than four weeks, the organisers of the Sick, Wounded, and Distress Fund appeal' have broken all records for the Dominion in the collection of money for war purposes. The people, too, have shattered all precedent in the generosity of their giving, because the response to date has superseded everything of this nature that has ever been held in this country.

Amounts are still pouring in, and the organisers are hoping that, on account of the increased call upon Red Cross and ambulance services! overseas at the present time, the! fund will continue t'b grow until the original estimates from the various provinces have been doubled, finally, exceeding £300,000. The Otago Province has doubled its original quota, and other districts are well above the amount promised. This is held by the organisers as an example { to tjie remainder of New Zealand of the magnificent spirit which has characterised the whole appeal, and they ask that it be followed wherever possible. EXCEEDS £268,000. At noon today it was reported that the fund had exceeded £268,000. The provincial totals were given as follows:— £ Auckland 42,000 Wellington 60,000 Canterbury ........ 55,000 Otago 50,000 Gisbprne .>. . 4,000 Hawke's Bay ~ ...... 22,200 Taranaki 14,000 Marlborough ........ 2,500 West Coast .. * 1,500 ■ Palmerston North .... 10,900 Nelson 2,000 With miscellaneous payments these figures will exceed £268,000. "In fact," it was stated at headquarters, "we-will probably pass the £270,000 mark if we calculate the sums not yet paid in."