COMFORTS FOR OUR WARRIORS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3975, 21 March 1900, Page 2

COMFORTS FOR OUR WARRIORS.

By the energy of Mrs Rutland Turner quite a respectable sized parcel of clothing was shipped away last weak for the use of the New Zealanders joining the Contingents for South Africa. Mm Turner commenced with a Is subscription to purchase materials to } be worked up by a number of ladies who had promised to help, and in this way collected 453 6s, and received an additional sum I <if £1 Is 7d in larger ram? as follows : - Miss Louch, ss ; Miss Sommerville, 3s and (school) 2 Id; Te Puna school 4s : Mrs Hamilton, 58 ; Mrs Wood re ffe, 2s 6d. Subscribers of Is :— Ma*y B -11, W.llie Bell, Elsie Rowe, F. Somerviile. L. McPartland, W. McPartland J. McPartland, A. L. Faulkner, B Armstrong, B. G. Armstrong 1 , Emily Howard, Colin McNaugh-

ton. R. Miller, Mabel Blick, S. E. Oliver, A. S., A. D., Mrs Boylan, Mrs J. C. Adams, J. Salt, A. Anquetil, Mrs Robinson, H. Robinson, R. Gordon-Gumming, J. Braithwaite, T* H. Fowler, R. R. Turner, A. O. Turner, W. H. Turner, E. M. J. Maurice, A. J. T., Rutland Turner, M. Moore, 8. Spence, J. A. Clarke, Alan Thomson, Thomas Lochhead, J. Davidson, E. Dames, A. Loder, Frank Humphreys, W. T. R., E. A. Mann, R. Woolams, E. Bramble, 0. H. Oliver, W.A.Bennett, R. J. Andrews, M. A. Rolfe, M. Spooner, T. Teasey, C. BL N.E., J. B. Mann, R. J. AUely, A. Wood, E. Kemp, P. Munro, A. Matheson, J. Thomson, R. Badger, J. H. Griffiths, Harvey. Lewis, Westenra, T. S. Duncanson, T. L. Thompson. This money was expended as follows : — Goods to work up purchased from Mrs J. Wright, £2 16s 9d; from Mr W. Teasey, £l 10s lid. The parcel sent away contained 10 shirts, 10 undershirts, 20 pairs socks, 20 handkerchiefs and 2 Tarn-o l -shanters. The following ladies took a prominent part in making up the parcel : Mesdames Davidson, Armstrong, Howard, Wright, Chappell, Bell, Hamilton, Turner and Thomson ; Misses Bidpis and Cramer-Roberts.