TRAY BIT WON IN BAND COLLECTION.
BUT SOVEREIGN FOUND ITS WAY INTO THE PLATE. A generous man dropped a sovereign into the plate in aid of the unemployed fund at yesterday’s band concert, but 466 other persons contented themselves with what Sir Harry Lauder calls a “ thruppeny bit ” —the church's one foundation. However, the aggregate of £4l 4s 6d was made up of fairly respectable coins. It is estimated, on the assumption that the copper contributors gave an average of a penn\ r each, and that everybody else gave one coin only, that 1474 persons contributed. The following analysis may help the reader to form his own conclusions:
£ s d Gold (1) .. . 1 0 0 Half-crowns (33) ... . . . 4 2 6 Florins (4o> .. . 4 10 0 Shill ings (277) .. 13 17 0 Sixpences (462) . . 11 11 0 Threepences (466) ... 16 6 Copper (90) 7 6 41 4 6
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17878, 21 June 1926, Page 9
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