EXPECTATIONS REALISED.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13757, 21 April 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

EXPECTATIONS REALISED.

£70 VOTED TO PATRIOTIC FUNDS

(From ''The Colonist," March 24.)

Mr. Win. Lints, the organiser of the recent Queen Carnival in connection with the 12th Regiment Band, left last evening for Gisborne. Prior to his departure the executive committee'• wet. and expressed its appreciation of .the manner in which Mr. Lints had -conducted the Carnival, which, it was announced, had proved a success oor<h financially and in respect to the programmes provided. It will be some little time before .the exact amount of profit can bo known, owing to all accounts not having yet ■ reached £h© secretary, but it is unflerI stood that expectations have been fully realised:' # - . ■ The executive-un&nimoHslv- voted - asum of £70 out of its profits towardspatriotic funds, this to be divided, £3o each to the Belgian and Red Cross Funds. The members of the Band afterwards met and expressed approval of the action of tbv executive committee.