Fourteen Children For The Centennial Exhibition

Northern Advocate, 9 May 1939, Page 2

Fourteen Children For The Centennial Exhibition

' The Kupe Club’s Scheme V, ' Makes Progress

’Pataua and Hikurangi Activity A Very Splendid Effort - three pounds sixteen and tw.a pence!! That’s the total amount - ‘ received so far in the Kupe Club’s Centennial Holiday Fund. H Just think of it~another pound or twc and we’ll have another five paid for. Pataua —quite a tiny settlement so far .as .size .goes—staggered us thus week by contributing £2 12/’) as the result of its first concerted effort. ( Vhavc described Pataua as tiny so far as size goes, but when it comes to ‘ community spirit, then Pataua is a place that takes some beating. To Muriel Douglas and her many willing helpers, both young and old, H.Q. sends its congratulations on an effort that can be described only as * “excellent.” t Hikurangi, toe, did good work this week with a picture evening that J netted £3 5/ clear of all expenses. This is HikurangPs first group effort so *fiar as the Holiday Fund is concerned; but the members of the hapu have | been working steadily with the result that their credit at H.Q. now stands at *;£7 7/-. Well done! |{ Back blockers, too. are getting on. There have been no special functions I ior them yet, though there are plans at H.Q. I'i To-day they received.another half-crown, this time through the geneiosily * jbf Npipna Carter, of Oakleigh. |r Norman ami Willie Ccnaghan both sent a little towards the Whangarei * funds and brought the total for the week to £6 1/9. With £l7 14/5 viu band up to last Tuesday, our grand amounts to £33 16/2 a most * encouraging amount. ‘ But in other ways, too, our scheme is progressing. We’ve just totalled * up.and. .we discover there are nine boys and girls whose parents have guarauteed .their full expenses. £ know of several schools whose funds have already started. In addiction there arc five others which are definitely to participate in the * excursion. E In one Native School the teacher intends providing the trip to Wellington as a. special prize for one of his pupils. He also hopes to raise funds "to enable at least one other small Maori boy or girl to make the trip. Yes, Northlanders, we’re progressing. But if our 1939 campaign is to * I bring the maximum happiness into this Northland of ours, we must not sit ’ down on the job. £ Hurry things along! Send in your contributions, and get your district on .ithe tip-toe of excitement. Schemes g alore there are for raising finance. See ?that you make the most of them! V’ A’ ■ ■I: Contributions Acknowledged ... V. Best thanks to the following for contributions received this week; they jareacknowledged as follows: £ s d I. Picture Evening .. .. ; .. •- ;I 3 0 Pataua Picture Evening . -.. ... ■ .? William and Norman Conaghan, for Matahourua .. v 1 6 Norma Carter, for Ba.ckblockers • • 3 6 Ellen Fry’s collection .. .. .. .. ..... - - 1 - ■ o Bantam .. .. • • v. Club collection Matahourua .. ? Hapu collection Matahourua .. 1 ’ ' £6 6 1 A-Inhand '.. .. •• •• •• 1?H 5 kV-TOTAL TO DATE 0 6