“BIG BAG DAY.”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19276, 13 September 1924, Page 15

“BIG BAG DAY.”

TO BE HEED ON SEPTEMBER 19. Next Friday the Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen's Association will hold their third annual “Big Bag Day” in aid of charity. “The poor are always with us,” hut by this groat effort their lot will be made much happier. This year the proceeds will be allocated as follows: —Eighty per eent. will go to alleviate local distress and 20 per cent, will he devoted to the New Zealand Blind Soldiers and Sailors’ Fund. Out of many claims received for assistance locally the association has decided to leave the distribution of the proceeds in the capable hands of the Salvation Army and the Citizens’ Relief Committee, and the contributors of goods and donations and purchasers of tickets may rest assured that no undeservcase will benefit by the fund, and no waste or overlapping will take place. “The Day” is being held later this year, hut although the winter of 1924 is over the funds are so paid out to the above organisations that they will cover the whole year, and will help to succour the poor until this time next year. “Big Bag Day” is peculiar in that no subscriber or worker receives any individual kudos, all work silently and ardently for their less fortunate brethren. Professions, merchants, trades, and business people generally have responded most generously to the S.O.S. with goods and donations, although no large lists of donations have been published, and the travellers have worked night after night—-the whole work of sealing in envelopes 40,000 tickets, and packing a like number of parcels having been transacted quietly and unostentiously. Last year the 39,000 tickets were sold out at midday, and many dilatory wonld-be purchasers were disappointed, so it behoves all those who want tickets to make a point of procuring them early in the day. Every purchaser of a ticket will at least receive a useful article, and there are also a very large number of handsome special prizes, including 92 1-tons of coal, various articles of furniture, gramophones, pictures by leading artists, bags of coal, tickets of admission to practically all the picture shows and theatres, as well as race mootings and concerts and a thousand and one other gifts. A large team of sellers will be on the streets, and it is confidently anticipated that this year’s takings will beat ail previous records.