SURF LIFE-SAVING APPEAL

Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1933, Page 8

SURF LIFE-SAVING APPEAL

COLLECTION IN THE STREETS. £23 TAKEN AT NEW PLYMOUTH. Collectors for the appeal for funds of the Taranaki Centre of the Royal LifeSaving Society and the Taranaki Surf Association were busy on the streets of New Plymouth from early yesterday morning till the rush died down at night. There were not so many helpers as there have been at other street days but energetic work was done and the sum of £23 was raised While this is not as much as was hoped for there will be enough to place all the reels in good repair again, and this work it is proposed to do immediately. The fund will possibly be augmented by late donations, and the Taranaki Swimming Centre has agreed to donate £2 2s. The work required to be done, eould easily be seen from the reel exhibited in Devon Street The majority of the 400 yards of line, it had originally held had been cut away some time ago and the iron work has rusted by . the action of salt air and moisture.

Lady helpers assisted in the earlier part of the day and in the evening, while High School boys were collectors in the late afternoon. The organisers of the street day were Messrs. C. H. Stephenson, H, S. Weston, L. Frethey. and R. Perkins, members of the committees of Life-Saving Centre and Surf Association.