GOOD PROGRESS
GISBORNE ZONE FUND PATRIOTIC DONATIONS TOTAL REACHES £2 787 The effort of the Gisborne patriotic zone committee to raise "its quota of £7200 for the current year’s contribution to the National Patriotic Fund Board’s programme is making good progress, arid to-day’s list of donations brings the total to £2787. Among the rriajor items which have come to hand recently are £260 from the Women’s Representative Combiittee, mainly proceeds' of show catering, £417 from the proceeds of shopdays, £3Ol from the “Hullo Victory” revue, £125 from the sale of patriotic maize crops, £153 from the Red Cross Society, £IOO as a direct donation from Messrs Murray, Roberts and Company and £97 representing the Gisborne zone committee’s proportion of the Poverty Bay Electric-Power Board’s contribution of £2OO to the district fund. The latest- donations are: '■' >
£ 8. d. Previously acknowledged "Toto” 738 10 0 i 0 0 “Fanmail” i 0 0 Murray, Roberts and Co. Ltd. 100 0 0 Holy Trinity Mothers’ Union 4 .15 0 To Hokowhitu-a-tu (Maori Ladies' Committee) .. .. .. . 5 0 0 Blitz Picture Display 35 8 1 Cant. P. McIntyre’s War Gallery Display .. .. .. .. 36 1 9 International Concert 50 1 2 Poverty Bay Women’s Representative Committee .. .. 260 0 0 Kiwi Concert 220 4 0 ’.’Hello Victory" Revue 361 2 2 Kaiti Shop Days 119 6 9 WKatnupoko Shop Days 99 14 2 Manaapapa Shop Days 76 19 9 Te Jtapara Shop Days 57 7 4 Town Area Shop Days 34 5 4 •Victoria Township Shop Days 29 16 3 Anonymous ., .. .... 125 10 5 Miss Brooking 4 10 0 Anonymous 9 2 6 Gisborne-Mangapapa Zone 12 6 2 Te Hapara Sewing- Circle .. 8 5 0 Holy Trinity Church .. 17 14 10 Red Cross Society 153 1 3 Sales Patriotic Maize .. 125 0 0 Power Board (part of £200 donation) .' ' .. 97 0 0 Sundry donations 4 .9 0 Total to date . £2787 2 8
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21385, 21 April 1944, Page 2
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314GOOD PROGRESS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21385, 21 April 1944, Page 2
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