Press cuttings: general Mar 1936 - Apr 1937 NHNN/PC/6/11
From the Evening Telegraph & Post
GENEROUS GIVING: DUNDEE CINEMA PATRONS THANKED
“Warmest congratulations and sincere thanks to patrons, manager and staff of King’s Cinema for a splendid response to urgent film appeal National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, during last week. Amount collected £81 3s 10d – Sir George Broadbridge, Lord Mayor.”
The above telegram was received from London this afternoon by Mr R C Harvey, manager of the King’s Theatre, Dundee.
Threepenny bits figured largely in the total. Over 720 of them were collected on Saturday on which date the total yield was £21. About 35s of this was made up of coppers.
One 10s note was found in the boxes. An average of £2 to £4 in large silver was collected each day, and about £4 in sixpenny pieces.