ROSE DAY IN LONDON
HELP FOR HOSPITALS. GIFT OF £20,000. (British Official Wiralass.) (Received noon.) RUGBY, Juno 30. The annual Alexandra Rose Day appeal for hospitals was held today, and it is hoped that by the sale of artificial roses and street collections £60,000 will be raised. The record for Rose Day is £58,000.
A bouquet of roses sent by Queen Alary from AVinclsor was sold in separate blooms at Christie’s auction rooms and raised £IOOO.
The King’s carriage was stopped by a rose-seller when His Majesty was on. his way to Rotten Row for his morning ride, and the King purchased a flower.
A trust fund of £20,000 given to the King Edward’s Hospital Fund by an anonymous donor, whose gifts now amount of £54,000, was mentioned by the Prince of Wales at a meeting of the general council of the Hospital Fund. The Prince also read a message from the King, patron of the fund, expressing His Alajesty’s pleasure that the fund had been able in 1930 to provide an increased distribution of £266,000 out of the current account of the year.
Lady Wilford, wife of the New Zealand High Commissioner, collected £BS in front of New Zealand House.
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Northern Advocate, 12 June 1931, Page 5
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