WANGANUI £20,000 APPEAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 80, 6 April 1942, Page 4

WANGANUI £20,000 APPEAL

FURTHER CONTRIBt TIONS. Wanganui’s quota for the combined Provincial Patriot.e Council’s 11,0(0,0"0 appeal, v.hion wa- originally £14,000, has been increased to £20,000. The reason for this increase, which is general throughout New Zealand, is the increased number of men being called up and the resultant increase in the demahd for patriotic funds. The Wanganui Patriotic Committee, early in t>-e week decided to call for contrikut.ons in the form of bomber bonds aid national savings bonds. So far bomber bonds to the nominal value of £B9 have been received as follow: Silk. Hill and Silk £25. Anonymous £l6, H. Rowling £l2, W. G. Seabrooke £lO, C. B. Laird, Mrs. Florence Laird, s.j G„ W. IL McCaul £5, F. W. Gould £2, E. IS. Fiske, Miss E. Williams, Miss E. Iliorns, E.S.V £l. Further contributions to the new Wanganui £2O 000 appeal have been received as follow’ Previously acknowledged, £1377 13s 4d; Anonymous £lOO, N.I.M.U. Insurance Co. £6O, Miss M. A. Duncan £5O, Mrs. E. Currie £25, P., Davies £2), M’-s. F. K. Turnbull £lO

10s Patriotic Association £lO 7s, J. H. Salmon £lO, F. J, Denton £7, Westmere Presbyterian Church £6, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Barriball £5 ss, Anonymous, N. Neilson, W. Rigg, Ltd., Effie Taylor, B. Dawes. M. H and G. F. Payne, Miss I. Maclean, Hill and Hoar, B. Hoar £5, M.ss M F. Tuffin £3 3s, H. B. Knight, J. Murray £2 2s, “York,” Miss H. Jones £2 H. Rowell £1 10s, H S. Bowden. A. Garry £1 Is. Mrs. Cook. B. Ennis, P. Mepham, A. V. Martin, A. G. W Muir, T. Couper, J. K. Robertson. Mrs. J. M. Haldane. Mrs, J. A. Harvey, Mrs. Lyth £l. Anonymous 10s Mrs. W. F. Moorman ss. Master Cook 3s. Miss E. Williams 2s 6rl; total, 11752 14s lOd.

Contributions will be received at the office of the seiietarv. Mr. C. S. Young, or by Mr. I', p. Wylds (treasurer). Amounts of £1 and over will be pub-li-.-ed in the “Chronicle” from time to time.