NOVEL EFFORT
| PATRIOTIC. CLEAN-UP i
I The stall' of the Onehunga Borough ! Council gave other local bodies a lead lon Saturday in combining patriotism i with utility, with the result that the 1 Fighting Forces Fund was increased by £85 in cash and the borough has been cleaned up in the one operation, reports the ''New Zealand Herald." Each householder had been notified during the week that all classes of rubbish would be collected on Saturday at a minimum charge of 6d, and 65 employees of the council did the work free. The cash contributions varied from (id to 10s, and 12U tons of rubbish were collected. The litter included a large number of iron bedsteads and gas stoves, together with an j assortment of old iron not yet valued. j Five ot the council's 'rucks were oIvj- ; ployed a.ll. day and sufficient valueless ; rubbish was gathered to fill in a cjoar- : ter of an acre of Gloucester Park. The j scheme w;it> carried out under t-ho ! supervision of the bonnmh <Ti;.',in<.'iT. • Mr. K. n. Baker.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 140, 16 June 1941, Page 3
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176NOVEL EFFORT Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 140, 16 June 1941, Page 3
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