WINTER CAMPAIGN CLOSED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21278, 3 September 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)

WINTER CAMPAIGN CLOSED

A SPLENDID EFFORT Although onr Winter Campaign really closed when we achieved our objective of £SO, numerous donations have since been received, bringing the campaign total up to £57 12s. This is a very fine achievement, particularly at a time like the present. It is easy to be generous and sympathetic when one is surrounded by sunshine; it is very much harder \\hen the clouds have gathered, and the. road ahead is beset with difficulties. Many of our friends have subscribed this year not of their riches, but of their need, denying themselves in order that they might bring help and comfort to others worse off than themselves. Among the most generous and industrious of onr helpers have been the, Sunnvcroft Bees. Ever since the campaign started, a big parcel has been sent by them every week. They are, indeed, as busy and industrious as their name implies! .Other friends whose help has not failed, and who have remembered us regularly each week, are Aunts Emily and Mill, " A Friend of the Brigade," and the Misses Gardner, Epsom. To these good friends, and to all those others, young and old, who have helped us to achieve success, we offer our heartiest thanks and appreciation. Our final donation list is headed with the sum of £1 15s collected by thoso two industrious young members, Jim and Melville Middleton. This makes a total of £4 15s collected by them this winter. Congratulations and thanks to both these ardent, young workers! Another cheque for £5 was sent to Sister Pat last week, making £ls altogether for the City Mission. Sister Pat writes: " This last donation I am using for meat, milk and groceries for onr poor families, and it will go a long way in tiding them over the lean days before the end of the week, when their supplies have run cut,, and there is no money to get more till pav-day. You can imagine how difficult it is to make the. few shillings of a relief worker's pay last the whole week." We are all most grateful for the wonderful help the Brigade has given, and the thought that so many were working for us, and trying to help us over this diffir cult winter, has been a very great encouragement." I also received another letter of thanks from the Mayor, for our donation of £25 to the Unemployment Fund. He writes: " I shall be gl'ad if you will be good enough to convey to the Children's Brigade the very cordial thanks of my executive for their generous help, which has been greatly appreciated." Our' final list of donations is published to-dav. Tf anyone still wishes to send monev, will they kindly forward it direct to' Sister Tat, 'City Mission, Wellesley Street.