WANTED £lOOO !

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1923, Page 2

WANTED £IOOO !

SOLDIERS CLUB FINANCE campaign. To-morrow the campaign to raise £I,OOO for the Westland Soldiers’ Club and Social Hall will ho opened. Tomorrow will be the first Soldiers’ Saturday, the first of a scries of twice mrnthly Saturdays for six months, in the effort to raise the funds required. Airs Morgan is to he in charge on the opening Saturday. The depot to lie opened in Revell Street, is '-eing put in order l>y the Returned Soldiers. The premises have been painted and smartened up, and the (his Company lias installed a first-class lighting service. Goods will be on sale to-morrow from 10 a.m. to 0 p.m. These who have promised contributions should send in their donations as early as possible tomorrow.

Several cash donations have been promised for the building fund, and the returned men are making weekly contributions. The committee will meet at the depot to-morow night at 0 o'clock to consider the draft plans which are being prepared gratuitously bv Air A. AA’ilson. The frontage of the new building to Sewell Street is to ho of a distinctive character. Mr J. A. Hart at the request of his workmen (twelve) has generously offered to move the Supreme Hall from its present site to the new position across the street—the men giving a day each free of charge for the work. Everything will ho placed in order for a quick removal and the whole structure moved hodilv across the road in one day.

Formal application has been lodged with the High School Board for the site, which as soon as demarked will lie cleared and prepared for the reception of the new building. The site is one of the hast in town for the purpose, and the soldiers are very fortunate in having it available, and so adjacent for the removal of the present building which is to form the nucleus of the enlarged social ball, •ind which it is hoped to have available about the King’s Birthday. AI css is AA'i I so» and Lynn have de-iened jm interesting deck lace to display the growth of the building fund. The

‘•hands” will indicate oil the face ol the “clock” how the fund grows. Ail interesting competition might he opened to indicate at what amount the fund will stand at on September .Tilth, when the campaign for the L'I.OIH) is to close.