SHARING THE BURDEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 37, 13 February 1931, Page 8

SHARING THE BURDEN.

DOMINION FUNDS GROWING. LOXDON AND SYDNEY LISTS. I Funds in the provincial and southern centres are steadily increasing.' ' Hamilton contributions have reached £4249. Tlie Waikato Returned Soldiers' Association voted £100.' The sum of £416 lias been- subscribed at Pukekohe. Nearly £200 has been subscribed.at Opotiki. The Thames fund stands at £350. The Cambridge subscriptions amount to £652. • The Tauranga fund totals. £237-' The Tauranga Borough Council donated 100 guineas. The Bay of Plenty Powei; Board has voted £25. The Mayor's fund at Te A'wamutu stands at £390, and tho "Waipa Post" list totals £33. The Pirongia Domain Board have decided, to contribute £100 from available funds, subject , to the Auditor-General's, .approval. Te. Aloha's total is over £420, Wliangarei's £1111, and Onehunga's £291. The Wanganui fund is how nearing £4000. The Wanganui-Rangitikei Power Board voted £500 yesterday and earmarked a further £500 for payment after March 31; Invercargill, £6232; Masterton, over £2000; Dunedin, £14,280; Christchurch and suburbs, £25,000... The Lord Mayor's fund for the relief of in the New Zealand earthquake was launched at' Sydney Town Hall yesterday. Private donations already total £400. > . The Hawke's Bay earthquake relief fund in London has; reached £11,890.'. • ; Help From Institutions. At a meeting of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association'last evening tit was decided to forward £25 for amongex-ssrviqemen. who had . suffered by the earthquake. The president, Sir George, Richardson, reported that the central: executive of the association had donated £100 to • the general 'fund. ■ - . . • • . ' , . The New Zealand Institute of; Architects . abandoned i its annual ;.j dinner scheduled for Wellington last evening, and members are. donating their subscription of a guinea' apiece to 'earthquake relief. Two gifts of £100 are ako being .'made, one to the Prime Minister'sfund and the other for relief of Hawke's Bay members. The employees of Hangatiki Lime, Ltd., at Hangatiki, have donated' one day's pay, amounting in all to £26 17/, to the Community Sunshine Association for the refugee children at Motuilii. Overseas Sympathy.' •'h . The following cable has been received by Mr. J. H. Hannan, Victoria Avenue, Remuera: "Ulster's sympathy." .The sender of,tlie message was Colonel Crawford, a. prominent citizen of Ulster. An earthquake relief fund has been opened by former New Zealanders at Toronto and the Trado Commissioner there is accepting subscriptions. :. | : The New Zealand representative", of. Walker and Sons, whisky distillers, has received notice that the firm is contributing £200 to the earthquake relief fund." • ' '"