SHOP DAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1944, Page 3

SHOP DAY

YESTERDAY’S ZONE EFFORT OVER (£516 RAISED. WINNERS OF RAFFLES. Zone 11 had an extremely successful shop day yesterday, the sum of £516 7s 6d being raised for the zone in aid of Patriotic Funds. A striking feature of this zone’s work was the raising of £63 Is 6d by means of “penny boxes,” which most zone members have kept in their homes for the last few months. Four thousand pennies, as well as other coins, were contributed in this way, and a taxi was needed to take them to the bank yesterday. Rallies were’ won as follow: Supper cloth, (No. 3), Miss Joyce Pike, 21 Cole Street; duchess set, (No. 19), N. Goodwin W.F.C.A.; fruit cake, not iced, (No. 183), Eaton, Colombo Road; doll’s bed. (No. 82), Mrs. Strickland, Bannister Street; tables and chairs (No. 74), Mrs V. Cameron. 100 Lincoln Road; inlaid box (No. 89), Mrs. Canwell, 3 Miriam Street; sword, (No. 21), Jack Wright, 63 Colombo Road; baby’s dross, (No. 22), Mrs. B. Henderson, To Whiti; sweetness, (No. 31). W. James, Upper Plain; tapestry bag, (No. 55), Miss Chapman, Victoria Street; pink nightgown, (No. 136), Mrs. McGarry, 41 Renall Street; box chocolates, (No. 58), Mabel Pinkerton, Akura Road; hot water bag, (No. 85). Miss Carey, Lansdowne; soldier's cake, (No. 13), Mrs. E. Cooper, 9 Queen Street: dinner (ist), (No. 8), Mrs. Southey. 91 Worksop Road; dinner (2nd), (No. 103), Mrs. Webster, 51 Oxford Stret; China tea, (No. 4), Mac, 40 South Road; blankets (129018), J. Johnston, Lincoln Road; table lamp (133411) R. Hill, Bannister Street; yellow cake, (38050). Beverley Hale, Te Ore Ore Road; bed jacket, (38329), Chris Hosking, Church Street; watch (7919), Mrs Longfield, 54 Essex Street; nightgown, (20986), Miss Tucker, 12 Dixon Street; Billy Bobtail (16801), Patty Camden, 126 Colombo Road; mat, (15439), Mr. Gray, Herbert Street; pink' cake, (19545), Mrs. Braggins, Bannister Street; port (15553), Beth Robinson, Tararua Street.

Next week’s shop will be in charge of zone 12 (Perry and Chapel Streets and Lincoln Road). This evening’s attraction is a card evening to be held in the Masonic Hall by zone 12. A good evening’s entertainment is guaranteed and it is hoped that there will be a large attendance. The first shop day in June, zone s’s shop on June 7, will be held in the premises recently vacated by Arts and Crafts, and this shop will be the placo of all subsequent zone shop days. A final meeting of zone 11 stallholders and helpers will be held at the residence of Mrs. E. J. Brown. 62 Church Street, tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at 2.30 o’clock.