RELIEF OF DISTRESS IN LONDON

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 243, 15 October 1940, Page 4

RELIEF OF DISTRESS IN LONDON

WANGANUI LIST £638 RECENT CONTRIBI LIONS So far Wanganui has collected £633 4s yd for the Lord Mayor of London < ■ Distress Appeal. The city treasurer ■ acknowledges the following further!

Donations sent to the “Chronicle” may be left either at the Avenue or the main office. RANGATAUA CHILDREN’S PATRIOTIC GESTURE i 112 ODD FOR LONDON FUND Children attending the Rangataua school, by 41 votes to 10, decided to devote £l2 18s 9d. monej raised for their annual Christmas treat, to the fund being raised by the Lord Mayor of London for relief of war distress in that city. It has been a custom for some years in Rangataua to give ail the children of the district a Christmas Eve treat. This year a ballot (not a show of hands) was in the school to decide three issues: (1) Should the Christmas treat beheld as usual? (2) Shoud the money be held for a treat next year? (3) Should the balance in hand be sent to children in London? Children in Standard I and higher , voted, and the result was overwhelm-' ingly in favour of the children in Lon- ; don receiving the money. It has been • forwarded to the “Chronicle” and was • acknowledged in yesterday’s issue. |

contributions:— £ u Previously acknowledge: 582 11 1 Queen Alexandra’s Band 34 18 5 Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Bernau 5 0 0 Mrs. J. B. Jack . .... 2. 0 0 Herald (List No. 5) 12 15 0 Mr. and Mrs. W.D.S. . 1 0 0 Total to date £638 4 9 ‘ CHRONICLE" LI.-T — The following contributions io he fund have been received al the "Chronicle" office for the x>ndon Relief Fund:— f s J Previously acknowledged 308 6 0 Wanganui Ladies’ Golf Club 66 7 8 J.J.A 0 0 L.I.A 1 0 0 A.H.N 10 0