£280 FROM SALES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20262, 1 June 1940, Page 6

£2BO FROM SALES

SICIC AND WOUNDED SPLENDID RESPONSE £39 FROM COPPER TRAIL A total of £2BO represented the proceeds of a street sale of badges conducted yesterday in the business area of Gisborne on bghalf of the joint appeal of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society, sponsors of the sick ana wounded fund. The public responded to the appeal with a remarkable degree of generosity, and demonstrated once again the capacity of the district to make a worthy effort in a good cause. Women’s committees of the two sponsoring bodies in Gisborne, and also groups of Cook Hospital nurses and Maori girls, carried out the major portion of the street campaign, and their results were described by Messrs H. H. De Costa and ,T. J. Macdonald, chairman and secretary respectively of the joint district committee, an magnificent. The pressure of events overseas undoubtedly influenced the public sentiment in favour of the appeal, and the joint committee was fortunate in having a sufficient number of hard-work-ing sales-..assistants to push the campaign to a .most successful, issue. Special donations to the fund received during, the day totalled £42. and these : will be acknowledged in due course in the lists published-in the Herald. . ■■■;-._■

A further source of profit which added to the success of the effort yesterday was a copper trail, from which £39 13s was received. Still another feature worthy of note was the action of a young man who presented the committee with an order on his wages for the amount of 2s Cd a week. FURTHER DONATIONS LIST REACHES £1482 Additional donations to the sick and wounded fund are acknowledged by the district joint committee of the Order of St. John and the Red CrdSs Society to an aggregate of £250, the list including one anonymous donation of £IOO. The position of the fund to-day, as a result of these donations, is that £1482 8s 2d is in hand, exclusive of the proceeds of yesterday's street sales of badges. The list is as under: —

FUND NOW £145,500 (Per Prnsa Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The sick and wounded fund reached £145,500 last night, district contributions being as follows: Wellington, £38,700; Auckland, £28,000; Canterbury, £27,000; Dunedin, £19,500; Hawke’s Bay. £13,000: Palmerston North, £8000; Taranaki, £7500; Marlborough, £1100; West Coast, £1500; Gisborne, £I2OO.

£ s d Previously acknowledged 1239 3 8 Anonymous • • 100 0 0 M. B. Mander .. 50 0 0 Richard Barker 25 0 0 D. M. Mclldowie .. 10 0 0 Mrs. F. A. McFadyen 10 0 0 W. J. Mclldowie . . 10 0 0 Gisborne Herald .. 10 0 0 Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Lunn 10 0 0 A. G. R. Henderson 5 0 0 G. W. Aitken 3 0 0 R Branch 2 2 0 C. A. Hart, Opotilu 2 0 <) Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Lindsey 2 0 0 Mrs. G. W. Aitken 2 0 0 Miss Doris Webb 1 1 0 Mr. and Mrs. G. Murdagh 1 1 0 Total to date £1482 8 2