RAFFLE — 11 PRIZES
SATURDAY 25 MARCH · TICKETS 50c · 3 FOR $1
St Alban's Parish Hall, Ruthven St, Toowoomba — table at the back near the urn, I'm there till two.
DRAWN AT 2 P.M.
SHARP
SHARP
You do not need to be here to win but it helps, because I am not posting anything.
Winners' numbers go up on this sheet in biro as they come out. Every book is a
different colour so pick the prize you actually want and buy out of that book —
no point taking a green if it's the tea set you're after.
Judging finished at eleven, so the tables are clear and you can walk right down.
All prizes on this sheet were donated. The club bought nothing. Values are what the
shop says they are worth and I have printed them because you're entitled to know.
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Click a prize line to tear yourself a ticket out of that book. One click, one ticket, fifty cents.
Three tickets in the one go is a dollar. The numbers on your stubs are the real numbers off the
book, so hang on to them. Nine of the eleven books were counted in at
half past eight and two were counted twice because Lyle and I got different answers.
If you've got the blue book, hang on to it — that's the one with the least sold and I'd
rather that didn't stay true. Prizes 10 and 11 come out last because they will not fit in a
handbag and I am not carrying either of them to the carpark.
HOW THE MONEY IS SPENT
| Hall hire, full day | $46.00 |
| Kitchen & urn, charged separate | $12.00 |
| This sheet — toner, paper, 300 off | $8.40 |
| Judges' petrol, flat rate agreed Feb. | $14.00 |
| TO BE COVERED BEFORE ANYTHING GOES TO THE ACCOUNT | $80.40 |
| Taken on tickets so far today | $0.00 |
| SHORT BY | $80.40 |
Small type: the kitchen is a twelve dollar charge on top of the forty-six and I have said
every year that it ought to be four, because we bring our own tea, our own milk, our own
biscuits and our own tea towels, and all we use of theirs is the urn and the cold tap.
Four dollars. That is my figure and I will put it in writing again in June.
The raffle paid the hall hire outright in 1987 — $44.00 that year — and again in 1988 at $46.00,
and members have not been asked for a levy since.
YOUR STUBS — KEEP THEM, I DON'T HOLD THEM FOR YOU
Nothing torn yet.
THANK YOU to Rossvale Produce, Hume & Sons Stockfeed, the Wilsonton Seed Barn,
Corrigan's Hardware (Margaret St), Dellacourt Bakery, Mott & Ellery Timber, the Newtown
Fruit Market, K. Palaszczuk Radio & TV Service and Bevan's Mixed Business, every one of
whom gave stock off their own shelf and asked for nothing back except their name printed,
which is the least I can do and here it is; and to the four feed merchants who took the ad
space along the bottom of the tickets, whose eight dollars each is why this sheet cost the
club nothing to print.
A word on the money before you say fifty cents is fifty cents: it is the second and third
ticket that pays the hire, not the first, which is why there are eleven prizes on this sheet
and not one big one. Eleven prizes, eleven books, eleven separate decisions, and a dollar
goes further than fifty cents does — work that out yourself at the table.
Third time I've said it and I'll say it standing up: the raffle covered the hall in '87 at
$44.00 and in '88 at $46.00 and nobody has paid a levy in two years.
No live birds are raffled at this hall and have not been since the ruling in October 1984.
Where a pair appears on this sheet it is a voucher toward a pair, redeemable with the donor,
and the birds go home with whoever the donor says they go home with. Same birds. Different paperwork.
· Corrections on this sheet are mine and were made Saturday morning at the table.
· Unsold books come back to me at four o'clock and I write down what didn't move,
because that is the only number worth having in February.
SHEET NO. 1 — TAKINGS TO DATE: $0.00
Number keys 1–9, 0 and – tear one from that book. Spacebar turns the sheet over.
— reverse, blank side —
1 doz. books in 300
less Lyle's count 300 ✓
hall 46 00
kitchen 12 00 (4.00!!)
print 8 40
petrol 14 00
80 40
3 for 1 = 33c ea
241 tkts @ 33 = 80.33 near enough
161 tkts @ 50 = 80.50
ask Dellacourt again Feb — always says yes
yellow — SEE ME
less Lyle's count 300 ✓
hall 46 00
kitchen 12 00 (4.00!!)
print 8 40
petrol 14 00
80 40
3 for 1 = 33c ea
241 tkts @ 33 = 80.33 near enough
161 tkts @ 50 = 80.50
ask Dellacourt again Feb — always says yes
yellow — SEE ME
Spacebar turns it back. ·
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