BOOK BOUND: Steve Trotman, Wairarapa Heart Foundation volunteer, surveys some of the thousands of donated titles for sale at the 17th annual fundraiser book sale in the Masterton Town Hall this weekend. PHOTO/LYNDA FERINGA
The 17th annual Heart Foundation book sale was launched at the Masterton Town Hall yesterday afternoon.
Co-ordinator Bill Reid, who this year was overseeing the monster sale alongside fellow Wairarapa Heart Foundation volunteer Jacquey Barber, said the event was one of the largest of its kind in the country and
aimed to raise up to $15,000 for the national organisation.
He said three truckloads of books, magazines and puzzles had been sorted and stacked ready for sale, after being donated over the course of the year "by the people of Wairarapa" and stored at the disused Masterton Hospital maternity building.
He said there was a need for younger volunteers to help with the annual lumping and humping of the books, which were yesterday loaded into the trucks by Wairarapa College schoolboys.
"Without them we wouldn't have a sale. They were terrific, as usual."
