COUPONS FOR COPPERS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17859, 3 August 1918, Page 8

COUPONS FOR COPPERS.

HOME DECORATION WITH A PURPOSE. Have you a coupon in your window? "A coupon? What couponP" you ask. Let us explain. There is going to be a coupon posted in every window in Christchureh and suburbs. That will prove that the people responsible for each window are alive to their responsibilities in regard to our gallant soldiers at the front- The coupon in your window will prove that once again you have "done your bit"—that you have made a cash contribution of 2s 6d towards the cost of sending comforts to the boys on active service. You are "on tlra trail," which leads from your responsive packet to the glad hand of the boy "out there," receiving your parcel of socks, of wholesome New Zealand fare, and of delicacies from the land they proudly call '" home."

So 3on will surely post a coupon in your window? Your neighbours will have them. It's going -to be fashionable. You will scarcely like to be the one house in the street without its practical sympathy sign. The coupon is your receipt for thirty penny tickets in the great Lady Liverpool Copper Trail. In this it resembles the badge that the sheet collector gives you foi your sixpence or your shilling, the difference being that whereas you wear the badge in your buttonhole, you wear the coupon in your window. "What does it matter if I miss?" asks someone. •

It means a break in the chain, a weak link somewhere, a gap in tho long, long trail to th& trenches, the trail that you can so easily and cheaply help to build and maintain. Let your coupon influence your neighbours. That is the way to lengthen the trail and to build up the fund for this, excellent work. It is essential, absolutely necessary work, this providing of comforts for the boys in the trenches; and we can all afford to help. When you buy your thirty tickets, see that you get the coupon. And post it up. Get the tickets representing the tramway area in which you live. Tho idea of the Copper "Trail scheme is_ that each of the undermentioned districts is endeavouring to cover the greatest length of tramline with coppers. Of course, the pennies don't go on the rails at all, but every time thirty penny tickets are sold the fund wipes off another yard of tramline.

Not only does your coupon' mean this, however. It means that you Jiavo thirty separate chances in the Lucky Number competition. Merchants and others havr- provided prizes ranging from £1 to £IOO, in order to encourage people to buy the tickets. Note especially that the prizes do not cost the Fund a penny. Rather, they help to swell it.

Already the coupons are making their appearance in the windows. They are figuring in the private houses, and so they should. The shops are doim* their part nobly. But the shops are always being called on, and the private houses are given a chance this time to help.

Workrooms are going to compete briskly, particularly " amongst the girl employees. Pool your pennies, girls, and show the coupons in the windoivs. Never a girl but has some keen personal interest in one of our gallant lads in the trenches.

Professional men—don't be too proud to fight. Post a coupon in your office windows, and show that you are out to help. Civil servants, never mind the regulations. Embellish your windows with the practical sympathy coupons. ; Already Rangiora, Kaiapoi and other towns outside tho city are inquiring for the coupon scheme. Tho people there are keen on patriotic funds, and the committee believes the" trail" of coupons will soon be practically unbroken there. Supplies will be sent as required. Should the committee not be able to reach your shop immediately, be a sport. Come in and get your thirty tickets and your coupon. Don't wait. Householders, do the same. Mr C. W. Hervey's office, 59, Cathedral Square, is issuing the coupons now, but next week there will be central selling depots in various spots within easy distance of the post office. Remember, every coupon means thirty penny tickets, and every penny ticket has a chance to win a £IOO war bond. There are hundreds of other prizes. The following are the competing districts ia the Tramway Copper Trail, with the distinctive colour allotted to each, district:— 1. Opawa, St Martins, Cashmere,Sydenham—Pink ticket. 2. Coronation Street, Lincoln Road. Riccarton —Green ticket. 3. Fendalton, Papanui—Yellow ticket. 4. North Brighton, Dallington, Linwood, South Brighton—Blue ticket. o. G'anford Street, Edgeware Road —White ticlTet. 6. Sumner, Woolston—Buff ticket. Don't forget every one of us belongs to one of the. six districts, and you must buy the colour ticket belonging to your section if you wish your district to win the comnetition. 1 1201