ADDITIONAL GIFTS
The Prime Minister has received the following offers to the Empire Defence Fund : — Hutt County Council, £150 ; Maungatapere borough, £50 ; Mrs. F. Riddiford, Hawera, £50 ; Mr. J. Barry, Wellington, £20; Messrs. T. and W. Young, Wellington, £100; Syrians of Wellington, £71 15s; Patea District Patriotic League, £340 and £60 to the Lady Liverpool Fund ; Captain A. M. Samuel, Wellington, one officer's horse and accoutrements ; Mangaweka settlers, £230 and several horses. The following amounts are acknowledged by the Paymaster-General : — Through Petone Borough Council (Mrs. ,Udy, Sen.), £5; Kaipara Co-op. Dairy 'Factory Co., Ltd., Helensville South, £50 ; through Waipawa County Council (fourth j.nst.), £5 ; Kaipara Co-op. Dairy inandel County Council (first), £69 2s; Ellerslie Town Board, £10 ; Rangiawahia Patriotic Fund, £72 0s 6d ; Ladies of Waverley and District, £62 4s 6d (Liverpool Fund) ; Inangahua Trotting Club, £10 10s (General Fund) ; Waipukurau Defence Fund, £100 ; Ormondville Patriotic Fund, £116 7s 6d (and horse); Christchurch Meat Co., Ltd., £500 (General Fund); through Bank of N.Z., Hunterville (second instalment), £686 ss; Murchison Patriotic Fund, £27 2s 6d; 'Westland County Council (first instalment), £125.
The Hon. J. G. \V. -Aitken was this afternoon re-elected chairman of the Wellington Education Board for the en.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 48, 25 August 1914, Page 8
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199ADDITIONAL GIFTS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 48, 25 August 1914, Page 8
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