PATRIOTIC APPEAL

Evening Star, Issue 25324, 4 November 1944, Page 11

PATRIOTIC APPEAL

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL FIGURES

Amounts paid to the treasurer of the Otago Provincial Patriotic Council up to Thursday show that the following is the position of zone and sub-zone collections towards the All Purposes Patriotic (1944) Appeal : North Otago Zone (quota £10,000). Further donations to date, £l5B Is; Oamaru Labour Party, £133 5s 4d; total, £13,828 19s lid. (Carried forward to 1945 appeal, £3,828 19s lid). South Otago Zone (quota £10,099). Clutha County, £203 6s Id; Bruce County, £B3 0s (3d; Balclutha Committee, £3O 19s 6d; sale of pictures, £2O; Benhar Committee, £l7 10s; Miss A. Wilson, £1; total, £9 942 18s lid. Tuapeka Zone (quota £4,o37).—West Otago Committee, 10s.; total, £4,312 2s Id. (Carried forward to €945 appeal. £275 2s Id). Vincent Zone (quota £3,065). —Cromwell Committee, £77 3s 2d; Omakau Committee, £55; Alexandra Committee, £35 2s; total, £4,118 lis sd. (Carried forward to 1945 appeal, £1,055 lis 5d.) Maniototo Zone (quota £2,o4B).—Previously acknowledged, £2,666 19s 9d. (Carried forward to 1945 appeal, £6lB 19s 9d.)

Lakes Zone (quota £2,o34).—Wanaka Committee, £65 4s; total, £2,821 14s" 2d'. (Carried forward to 1945 appeal, £787 14s 2d.)

Dunediu-St. Kilda Sub-zond (quota £43,ooo).—Previously acknowledged £51,707 9s lid.

Palmerston-Waiheroo Sub-zone (nuota £l,244).—Palmerston Committee, £126 19s 7d; total, £1,269 12s sd. Waikouaiti Sub-zone (quota £2,194). Waikouaiti County Council, £100; Karilane Committee, £6l 6s; Warrington Committee, £3B lis 6d; Hawkebury Committee, £5; Waikouaiti Committee, £2 3s 3d; total, £2,314 12s lid. Taieri Sub-zone (quota £3,9os).—Further donations, £3O 2s 6d; Outram Committee, £22 14s; total, £4,603 18s 9d. Peninsula Sub-zone (quota £B3o).—Previously acknowledged, £l,lll 10s. West Harbour Sub-zone (quota £830). Further donations, £44 16s lOd; total, £1,050 17s 6d.

' Port Chalmers Sub-zone (quota £1,100). —Previously acknowledged, £1,200 4s lid. Green Island Sub-zone (quota £1,013). — Concord Committee, £5 15s 3d; total, £1,171 18s -6d.

The total is £102,121 lis, which, less the surpluses credited to the 1945 appeal (£17,913 12s sd), gives a total of £84,207 18s 7d. The amount required is £84,364.