REMUERA CHILDREN'S HOME.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 166, 14 July 1914, Page 7

REMUERA CHILDREN'S HOME.

jgl BOTI.un'G CAMPAIGN. OVER £WW RAISED. The effort of thp UAW * and ff pmlp " irbo have worked t-o energetically JAJaJge £1"'P0 t0 p n-urc that li,. new (riding of the Remuera Children's Wl me ihould he erected free from Ite Ldica? of debt, were most generously re6 poaded to by the citizen. At the LeW gathering hrld last evening in ' y-\i,C-A. buildinps. it was announced in cash and premises no lees than £1649 thud been secured. The final re-alte-were a* follow:—Mrs. I-'. W. (laze. 7j». Mr-. Ha v. LIS: Mrs. Carlick. ! ,{{■ Rev. S. Jcnkin, Hill; Mrs. .1. C. Snedding, ii*!: Mrs. ''°»?- " : '= M'<--CIS: Mts. Strainton. CIS; Mrs J. Ings. I'M: Mrs. l\ Cramh. CM: Prangnell. £10: Miss Davis. U1": Pastor Morris. ts : Miss rspedding. HVhsuigaxei. £4: -M\-<s Baldoels. til: }[j 6; Graham, tit: Mrs. W. 1.. Salter. Birkdale. £•": Mount Eden Baptist Church. £25: making a total of £1640. The teams which collected the three fci»hest aniotintis were led by Mrs. Haze. £301; Mrs. Carlick. CVvl: Mrs. J. C. SpetHin*.'. £212: and Mr.-. Long. C 212. Mr. Todd Smith, chairman of the Collectors' Committee, congratulated the teafflß led by those above.named, upon the satisfactory rr~-.i!u achieved by their labours. He thanked the captains md also tlhe individual members of the tpams for the energetic work done, lie felt their thanks were also due to those irbo had lent motor-cars and also to the citizens who had responded so liberally to the call made upon I'hom in the interest of th" children, 'ihe home -would now be ope,ied tree irom debt, and lie ir*-. g'arj to announce that practically the whole of the furniture and kitdlien Btensils had ai-o \wn given.

Addresse- were delivered by Ihe Rev. H. Snowies Krmpton and Mi--s >pcdding. the latter relating some of her e\p.-ri-M'es during her ton.- ot the Dominion. *hieh had resulted in raising nearly ■Aim. An interesting letter was read from Jfr. Colin R. Munro. headmaster of the Bemuera district school, stating that the children had donated C 7 towards the parchate of a library for tihe new home, tnd the girls of Standard V. and VT. TOllld cover the book-. Mr. G. C. Carlick (chairman of the Building and Finance Committee), on behalf of the chairman and members of the Remuera Children's Home, tihe captains, and member- of collectors' teams, presented Mr. and Mrs. Todd Smith with i handsomely-bound volume suitably inKribed. in appreciation of the valuable Sfirica? rendered during the campaign. Songs were contributed by Mrs. Beveridge. and a recitation hr Mr. I.c Boy. The official opening of the new home will, it is (hoped take place next October.