NEARLY £800,000
PATRIOTIC FUNDS
WELLINGTON LEADING
The latest figures in the £1,000,000 All Purposes Patriotic Appeal are close on £800,000, the honorary Dominion organiser, Major J. Abel, reports. The Wellington Province is at the top of the list, but the Auckland Province is just at the beginning of its effort 'o raise £127,000, and should take the lead later.
The total to date is as follows:—Wellington, £191,250; Auckland, £170.000; Canterbury, £107,500; Otago, £79,500; Taranaki, £69.000; Hawke's Bay. £54,200; Nelson, £37,300; East Coast. £26.700; Southland, £26,000; Marlborough. £18.900; Westland, £14,000; miscellaneous. £5000. Total, £799,350.
The Wellington provincial figures are made up as follows:—Metropolitan £105,000; London funds, £17,000; Wairarapa, £28,250; Wanganui, £11.000; Otaki, Levin, Shannon. Feilding. £9500; provincial jpnes, £5000. Total, £191,250.
Feilding and Wanganui are the two main zones in this province still with only slightly over half of their quotas in hand.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 115, 17 May 1941, Page 10
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142NEARLY £800,000 Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 115, 17 May 1941, Page 10
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