BELGIAN CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS GIFT.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15158, 23 December 1914, Page 8

BELGIAN CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS GIFT.

RANGIORA. As a, result of an organised collection in Kungiora aud tho neighbourhood for the lit.gium chiidrvTi'e special Christmas gift, the Mayor (Air C. 1. Jennings) forwarded £10 to tho central secretary yesterday. The. amount wae niado up ac iollowa: — £ c.d. Collected by Mm Barton .. ... 11 00 Collected by Mrs W. Cunningham 315 0 Cp,loctcd by Mre Will .. .. 216 0 Collected by His 3 Fear .. .. 411 0 Collected by Miss I. Scott .. 418 3 Collected by Mrs C. E. Bell .. 416 0 Collected by the Misses Johnston 112 6 Kangiora. Proebyterian Sunday School .. .. .. 4 011 Rangiora Presbyterian Girle' Bible Class -• .. •• 0 5 0 District School primary departments .■ •• •• 016 4 Rangiora Fire Brigade (in Iksu of sending out Christmas cards) .. .. ..150 Miscellaneous .. .. ..< 0 4 0 Total ... .. .. £40 0 0 SCARG-ILL, A collection mado at Scargill , far tne Belgian Children's Christmas Fund by. tbo Misses Stewart and Mt Walter Blackey resulted in & sum of £11 3e 6d being raised. The amount wae Bent to Mr E. Nordon. secretary of the North Canterbury Fund, yesterday. BOXING DAY GALA. The committee of the .Boxing , Day Gala for tho Belgium Fund wish to acknowledge receipt of jE2 from Mr T. QueaJy. Tho secretary notifies that tbe Gala will commence at 11.15 a.m, UNSELFISH SCHOOL CHILDREN. The pupils attending the Tad Tapu Public School have fchie year decided to hand over their prize fund to assist in rclicring the distress of the poor of Belgium. E&oh child will receive in roturn a email certificate acknowledging its gift, and this will eerve c.9 a memento of the occaeion and an ackTw>wledßm«nt. of an action worthy of commendation us a true epirit of uneelfifihnese. The act waa quite a voluntary one on the part of tho ehfldxem.