THOUSAND POUND CHEQUE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 65, 17 March 1915, Page 2

THOUSAND POUND CHEQUE.

-—- ■ » BIG PRODUCER'S GENEROUS V-' ''■ ■' GITT. ' - -C©2?SqfENCE MONEY FOR TLL- .,*,...-..- • GAINS... . '... (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALiEERSTOJf NORTH, this day. Mr. P. A. Mcfiaccly, toe" well known •Maaawatu farmer,, -ifiaji. dohaied a thousand pounds to the Belgian Relief Fund. In -a. le.tter to the. tStacndaTd," covering jr; cheque for he says: "As a pr-ouueer. and one. who is deriving da-creas-ed revenue from fee efforts of those Hwho' are 'dyfiigj' fighting^' enduring . .IhaTd--ships and torture,, having.their couartry Md waste,' and their 1100183 destroyed, it ;fe.my ;duty. to;TettOT-»rnething to those wtoareso "nobly defending our existence, ■whose sufferers, wounded, maimed, destitute, need .Immediate care, attention,, and assistance., The .increased .price of produce is, in : .mj>o'pinSojj, conscience money foy--.3kgo^^.,;gaiHs, A dae to, the Allies an land and their fleets at sea. Whatever we give is urgently wanted Dy "those "who axe upholding oar side across the eea. The only'cahsoratioin left to; Belgium is ber 'honour. For this she has Md down her life, sacrificed ""'her "eomrtry, is still fighting* to- -help -us and -our ATließ to enash the awfuLoppre6sion which threatens our existence. Do not let us withJiold our generosity or'stay-our -assistuntil it lis too iate, for this nation -fßdgium) did no*-hesitate-to fling itself in-the enemy's path, and-so prevented a war which m%ht "hawe'lasted many years, end been of grave .consequences to the ooTfitnes as d" -"Whole. Let' us not 6±ay "making,gifte..behind;, the 'suggestion • that ~ijhe ,esemy.may'getra nortaon, or that -'they shonid-be-, driven wit of Belgium. .We have aesmaaroes .that the money will oe spent in the'interest and l«s«lfare_ of .thist&r.whomjt is. intended in the appeals mode through the Kress, affording reading wihich will open the bearls of those in- a position to give and "kteist." Surely our country -is wort going to be found wanting m loyalty to those ■whose debt it is ihrrpossible to repay in toSh/*"-';- -.« -