COMMUNITY SINGING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 244, 15 October 1931, Page 7

COMMUNITY SINGING

APPEAL FOR UNEMPLOYED WELLINGTON’S SUCCESS. WELLINGTON, Oct. 14. Considerably more than three thou sand people turned up at the Town Hall last evening to attend the final community sing in aid of the Mayor’s relief fund. As the hall could only accommodate 3000, many had to be turned away. It was a most enjoyable evening, well packed with fun, jollity, rousing choruses and humorous sallies. The Mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, paid a tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Russell, Mr. Owen Pritchard and Mr Frank Crowther, as entertainers. Credit was also duo to the entertainment committee and to the 2YA organisation which had helped to make community singing so popular in tho city. He was grateful to the people throughout the country who had contributed to relieve distress in tho city. The collections up to the minute for the Mayor’s fund amounted to £382. During the winter months, the Mayor said, 2000 families had been supplied with food; 1000 pairs of boots had been given to the men on relief jobs, 500 pairs of trousers, and the fund had also assisted the Salvation Army in giving meals to 150 women and children daily, while 500 bags of coal had been distributed among the poor people. He desired publicly to thank all who had assisted him with tho relief fund, and wished especially to mention the 16 church organisations and tho central committee. Anyone feeling depressed could get a certain cure by taking a mixture of Russell, Pritchard and Crowther. £420 Collected. Mr. E. Palliser, chairman of tho Community Singing Committee, thanked all the performers warmly as well as tho Red Cross nurses and Rovers for the assistance given at tho various sings. The collection that evening from listeners-in amounted to £6O 0s sd, and the collection at the doors was £57 17s 9d. In all the total amounted to £391 2s 9d. Tn tho course of the evening tho total collected was increased to £420. Mr. Frank Crowther announced that ho had received a donation of £2 2s from Mrs. Hague Smith, of Wanganui, on behalf of Fred and Gus Bluett, of stage fame. Another donation announced was six tons of potatoes from the Dominion Sportsmen’s Association.