EXCELLENT RESPONSE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 255, 25 September 1935, Page 10

EXCELLENT RESPONSE.

FOR RELIEF OF DISTRESS

CHRISTCHURCH RAISES £15,223.

for Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH Sept 24. The amount raised for the relief oi distress in the city by the .Metronolitan Queen Carnival, a total of £lo,223 Os lid, and the name of the winning queen, Mrs A. L. Croppj iepiesenting the manufacturers and industrial group, were announced this afternoon to a large audience in the Civic Theatre. The total hold by the city treasurer shortly before 3 p.m. to-day was £11,653. Between that time and approximately 4.10 p.m., when the final total was announced, nearly £3OOO was paid in by the representatives of the seven groups, including a sum of £2BO, the amount for which the coronation chair was sold to the highest bidder, Mr J. It. McKenzie. The final order of queens was:—Mrs A. L. Cropp, manufacturers and industrial; Mrs J. R. McKenzie racing and trotting; Mrs Herbert Hill, commerce and public service; Mrs Kenneth Ballantyne, retailers. Other candidates were Mrs Ernest Boulton (licensed vistuallors, wholesalers, and commercial travellers). Miss Joan Cunningham (professions), and Miss Betty Cotterill (sports).