TEN PURSES. £10.000.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 224, 20 September 1915, Page 7

TEN PURSES. £10.000.

CHANCE FOR RICH MEN. I RESPONSE Tf) MR El.L.rrrS APPEAL. CAS COMPANY VOTES £2000. FOt'R CIFTS TOTAL £5000. The flowing tide . i generous contributions to the Auckland Patriotic Fund ha* commenced Auckland in aiming at a fund of at least £ i.V> 1100, ,n order to ensure the just treatment of the returned killed and maimed, and t" bring home to th- pir.li. the nece--itv for art adequate fund not only is a great carnii il being org-in.*ed on the line* of the -~uthern efforts, which realised up to £ 1.V1.000. hut an earnest appeal is 0.-mg made .y our-, ness men to business men to come for ward with large donations to help the teserving cause. Since the effort was launched by Mr Keorge Elliot, the chairman of the Patri otic Association, several gentlemen an I companies have spontaneously come for ward w.th handsome donations to tr.c fund. Mr. Wilson, of Wilson and C.mham, a Canadian firm, nas given £1000, and has suggested that nine other firms or well to-do citizens should come forward with similar amounts and set an example to the community by promptly taising £10,000. Mr. A. M. Myers. M.P. has written out a cheque for* £ 1000 in favour of the Il " r "' L At a meeting of dire-tors of Wilson's Portland Cement Company it was decided to vote £1000 to the PatrioticFund. Seven more gifts of £ 1000 are wanted immediately. The directors of the Auckland C.as Company also specially met to day for tiie purpose of voting a lonation to the fund It was resolved to give £2000 towards the fund. Mr. Cecil Whitney has given a brand new oil launch, which is insured for £350. to be disposed of for the fund. "I am not a moneyed man. hut you can make use of mc at any tune and for any service. 1 have a siity-live guinea prize which I won at the Exhibition, and yon can have this to raffle or do a* you please with," writes another gentleman, and this is typical of many letters received by Mr. Elliot.