PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 67, 18 March 1916, Page 6

PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

SUBSCRIPTIONS KEEPING UP. TOTAL NOW £351,794. £G2S FOR AEROPLANE FUND. Donations and subscriptions to the funds of the Auckland Provincial Patriotic and War Relief Association arc still coming in steadily, and the gra,nd total received since the fund was opened now stands at £351,794 15/. Of this, £75,057 8/ was received prior to the carnival, £205,371 14/1 during the carnival, and £11,365 12/11 since. The Mayor's Fund now amounts to £60,251 10/3. The following donations have rccentlv come to hand:— £ s. d. Cambridge district : 500 0 0 Wallett and Finlayson (Jan.-Feb. donations) .. 20 0 0 Collected in Otamatea I County, per E. G. Aickin 12 17 8 Bequest "by late L. O. Abrahams ." 10 0 0 Hon. G. Fowlds (sixth donation) 10 0 0 PROVINCIAL AEROPLANE FUND. The following donations to the Provincial Aeroplane Fund, amounting to £628 5/0, have been received "by the treasurer (,Mr. M. M. Louisson): — E. Porter and Co., Miss E. Fenton, K. H. Hopkins, G. Coles, each £5. D. R. Caldwell, £250. Hon."'A. M. Myers, £100. J. J. Craig, £100. Auckland Branch N.Z. Warehousemen's Association, £40. C. H. Fenton, £20. John Court, Ltd., and Percy Hall, each £10. E. Le Roy. £5 5/. A. E. Wliitaker. A. H. Nathan, Ltd., T. Mandeno Jackson, Andrews and Clark, Ewington and Baker, each £2 2/. Mrs. Wright, £2. C.F.8.. ilrs. E. D. Benjamin, each £1 1/. C. A. Whitney. D. Gouk. E. D. Benjamin, D. Holland, N. Crowther, Anonymous, each £1. W.C.T.U. APPEAL. WANGANUI, Friday. The Women's Christian Temperance Union Convention was continued to-day. It was resolved to urge all branches to collect funds for patriotic purposes; J that all temperance organisations »be . invited to contribute funds, such funds to be acknowledged to the credit of the organisation contributing them- and that the Y.M.OA. be asked to administer the funds. HAWKE'S BAY RELIEF FUND. (By Te]"sraph.—Press Association.) NAPIER, this day. The Hawke's Bay War Relief Association has received contributions or promises totalling £69,564.