COMMUNITY SING
FOOD FOR BRITAIN FUND BENEFITS Miss Mary Pratt was the guest artist at the community sing in the St. James Theatre yesterday, her songs proving popular with the large audience. The proceeds, which were for the Food for Britain Fund, amountd to £47 3s Bd, and £l7 was also handed in for the Leper Appeal. The leader was Mr H. P. Desmoulins, with Mr A. H. Pettitt at the piano. Donations and promises:—£5 ss: Weekly. £23 Os lid: Staff of Silknit. £5: "Old Southern Player." £2: " M.” £1 Is: " Sands of Time,” Mr and Mrs Lawn, “A Friend!” (Waitahuna). £1: Patients of Batchelor Ward, " Roller Canary,” Joan, Lorraine and Denis (Ettrick), "Two Wellwishers,” Raylene and family. 12s: Kitchen Staff, McGlashan College. 10s: Mr Botting (Pleasant Valley), Laundry Staff (Balclutha), Robert Gardner, “Two Bluflites,” Owaka Hospital Staff, “ Two Franks,” David and Evan, “ Friends in Middlemarch,” " Scotty,” “ Rotten Bowldr,” Dettol Room Girls. ss: Margaret, " Your Little Dearies,” “ Mervyn and Cliff,” "Ainslie and Olwyn,” Elizabeth Harman. "El Alamein,” Jonny Grimshaw, Elsie and Dot Thompson. 3s: Mum, Phyllis and David.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27212, 15 October 1949, Page 4
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178COMMUNITY SING Otago Daily Times, Issue 27212, 15 October 1949, Page 4
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