POPPY DAY APPEAL FUND

Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1934, Page 9

POPPY DAY APPEAL FUND

NORTH TARANAKI IRESULT FINAL RETURNS SHOW TOTAL £568. OVER £5O MORE THAN LAST YEAR. Final returns for the annual Poppy Day appeal for North Taranaki held on April 20 show the total of £568, compared with £5lO 13s lid last year, pie result, which includes money . raised throughout the hospital district, is considered highly satisfactory in view of the present economic uncertainty and a compliment to the efficiency of the organisation directed by Mrs. R. H. Quilliam. As in other years, the fund will be used to provide work for ex-servicemen, the administration being done by the Returned Soldiers’ Association without cost. The returns, which have been prepared by Mr. A. S. Hunter, show that in addition to £385 16s 3d banked after the collection at New Plymouth, the following contributions were received: Mrs. D. Blackley’s shop £5B 14s 5d (last year £4O), New Plymouth Savings Bank £5O, Dr. G. Home £2 2s, New Plymouth Rotary Club £2 2s, Round Table Club £1 Is, Friendly Societies’ Dispensary £1 Is, Public. Hospital £6 Ils, Rotokare branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union £2 2s, New Plymouth Anzac Day service £4 18s, Rahotu £l9 Ils (a splendid response from so small Ji community), Inglewood borough (Mrs. Gibbs) £l5 19s, Waitara borough (Mrs. Bullen) £3O. The complete list of collections in the counties is as follows:— Taranaki county: Smart Road (Mrs. Sorenson) £3, Hillsborough (Mrs. H. C. Sampson) £2, Bell Block (Mrs. L. Rundle) £5 3s 6d, Brixton (Miss L. Dimmer) £3 15s, Huirangi (Mrs. Hall) £2 12s, Lepperton and Sentry Hill (Mrs. Wellington and Mrs. and Miss Waldie) £5 16s, Mangorei (Mrs. Jordan) £3 6s, Upper Mangorei (Miss Papps) £1 Is, Albert Road (Miss P. H. Cooney (£1 8s), Korito (Mrs. Parker (£1 Ils), Hurworth (Mrs. F. Baker) £2 16s, Taururutangi (Mrs. J. Giddy) £2 8s 6d, (Mrs. Street) 17s 6d, Okato (Mrs. J. S. Fox £6 7s, Omata' (Mrs. Hare and Miss Ena Gray) £4, Omata (Mrs. Berridge) £1 12s, Omata (Mrs. S. Jury) 7s, Oakura (Miss Fay Bell) £1 10s, Koru (Mrs. Keys) 12s, Tataraimaka (Mrs. Knight) £3 Is, Puniho (Miss M. Bell) £3 ss. Clitfon county: Motunui (Mrs. Cole) £2 10s, -Tikorangi (Mrs. H. A. Foreman) £4 5s 6d, Onaero (Mrs. Huse) £2, Urenui (Mrs. Scott, Mrs Fuller, Mrs. Managh, Mrs. Strachan) £4 19s, Urenui (Mr. Fuller) £IIOS, Waitoitoi (Mrs. F. J. Phillips) £2 3s, Waitoitoi (Mrs. Salway) £1 13s, Pukearuhe (Mrs. Wells) ss, (Mrs. Freeth) £1 Is, (Mrs. Syd. Purdie) £l, Uruti (Mrs. Musker) £2 14s 6d, Tongaporutu (Mesdames Southcott,' Raven, Townley) £2 25,. Okau (Mrs. Lewis) £1 4s 6d; Okoke (Mr. Blundell) £4 2s, Mackford school, Mokau River (J. S. Webster) 16s, Mokau school £1 3s. '

Egmont county: Rahotu (Mrs. Williams) £l2 Ils, Warea (Mrs. W. D. Longley) £4 ss, Newall (Misses V. Jenkins and J. Allardice) £2 13s, Pungarehu (Mr. .Roots) £3.

Inglewood county: Egmont Village (Miss Margery Morton) £3 14s, Kaimiro (Mr. N. Gibson) £2, Kaimiro (Mrs. Paterson) £1 8s 6d, Kaimata (Mrs. Buchan - nan) £1 14s, Norfolk Road (Mrs. Ashton) £1 0s 6d, Norfolk Road (Mr. Gemhoefer) 14s, Durham Road East (Mrs. W. Brown) 9s, Durham Road West (Mrs. W. Herbert) £2 0s 6d, -Tarata (Miss Paterson) £3, Purangi (Mrs. Turner) Ils, Waitui (Miss James) £2 2s, Tariki (Mrs. Gush) £1 Is, Mountain Road (Miss Thomason) 13s, Waiongona (Miss Simmons) £1 18s, Dudley Road (Mrs. Stuart) £2 10s 6d, Kohuratahi (Mr. Baker) £2 3s. 6d, North Egmont mountain house 3s, Mr. Tait, Inglewood, £l.

Winners of competitions were: First prize, Mrs.. F. J. Phillips,'. Waitoitoi; second prize, Mr, F. Gibbs, Tongaporutu; special prize, Mrs. Salway, Waitoitoi.