NELSON'S FINE EFFORT
QUEEN CARNIVAL ENDS
When the Nelson city and nearby district Queen Carnival concluded on Saturday night, the honorary Dominion organiser of the £1,000,000 All-Purposes Patriotic Appeal, Mr. J. Abel, reported that the effort had brought in £15,016. The contest was won by the Navy Queen, Miss J. Field, who paid in £5596. The Air Force Queen, Mrs. Lang, with £5228 was second, and Miss B. Aydon, Army, was third with £4088. To these amounts is to be added £108 which was paid directly to the provincial funds.
Mr. Abel considers this an excellent result, as the province has already collected £7000 towards the appeal.
The carnival occupied several weeks
Adding the Queen Carnival proceeds to the funds already in hand and including a drive at present being carried out at Buller for £6000, Mr. Abel does not doubt that the Nelson Province will more than reach its £30,000 quota, as the latest information is that Nelson now has £26,135 in hand.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1941, Page 9
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