POLICE AND PRESS
CAMPAIGN TAKES PLACE. THREE DEFINITE ASSURANCES. “How are the tickets for the Police and Press match selling?” This question is being asked daily now, ami indicates the steadily awakening public interest in this annual appeal. “Wo feel that anything we cun do to assist those in need wo should do,” said Senior-Sergeant Capp, chairman of the Police-Press Committee, yesterday, ‘‘and wo know that the public has full confidence in our appeal. It might bo pointed out that last year a good deal of the £6OO collected as the result of this appeal came from distant centres. This year the sales of tickets are being confined more to Wanganui itself and the Police-Press Committee believe that the public in that district will respond willingly. For the modest sum of one shilling the purchaser of a ticket is assured of three important things:— (1) That the whole of the shilling ho spends goes to charity. (2) That he will participate in an art union, the first prize of which is an oil painting, valued at £4O, and the second prize £lO in alluvial gold. (3) That ho will be admitted to the Police and Press match on Spriggens Park, on July 29. Now this is not an ordinary game of football. It will be bright and jovial and the whole afternoon is being looked to to provide a holiday atmosphere. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of “Old Man Depression,” and the thought is prevalent that he will bo run to earth on Spriggens Park on the day of the match. If ho is, he will be chained to the goal posts while the Police and the Press finish off their game. Afterwards ho will be dealt with appropriately. Before the Police and Press fixture the Queen’s Own and Highland Pipe Bands are to play a curtain-raiser in fancy dress. This, in itself, will produce much merriment. There ire other great novelties planned for the day and the Harrier Club is staging a special race over the championship course. This event is to start and finish on the ground _
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 163, 13 July 1933, Page 4
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