VETERANS' HOME FUND

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15489, 17 January 1916, Page 9

VETERANS' HOME FUND

HANDSOME PROFIT FROM BAZAAK. Ljecutive Committer; of the Veterans" r met cn Saturday evening. P • CreawelL Y.X>. (chairman or the , ■ ' P rcs i<ijd, and -there was a, full at«ndance of tho committee. Tho priacipt.. >n„ T fß was f -o discuss a letter from tie ' er ..°* Affair 3, requesting an V . Wor ' , or "no, ' as to whother the erans Association were prepared to tease collecting funds so as to leavo tho hc.d clear for the p atrictic r um l. j- „ c committee were unanimous in their ■p"tir,s^r? V action of the Patriotic i. . Committee, and decided that a solicitor s advico l )? obtained before replving to the Mimster'g letter. tat ° secretary to the. Fund presenter, tne st tement of accounts in v;it a r 'o bazaar held durin;; Show Wcok. Tho rc*l P t .l rCni all totalled £U?3 Is Id. j? 'f 3 , expenditure was £.MI Is. leaving a tivdit balance of £33s l(! s Id. c „-j ~c ^a irmal" ', in reviewing the accounts, -"e result of *h> bazaar nr.i-t con-J-n-tocl cxcedmgly satisfar :ory. and rcf.ccted ''m 3' , cr -dit on the sccrtUry (Mr Jieil), who had worked unceasingly alwlt,kon t assistance. -uo rcocipts were iv.ado *ip of p,t '* s ,f s s ISs 50d, door t. kin-, £170 S3 9d, ■•nd sule-shcw.s £25 JCo Cd. Tb.-. expenditure •'.as:—General expenses i'.»2 it? t-d. ladies' ustuines £Zd 12s Cd, P ar;in ? £0 -te, ::dverand printing X7J Dd. docorations meeting stallr, £13 12a Sd. 2 oo: ls i-100 Us 9d. s-i. iho committee decidod i-j make a special effort to have the sold nu-jjjet art un.on arawn cn January Mist. ctorans' A?scciaticn acknowledge 7,1 u sum of .£•» from the Canterbury Carpcjiters' and Joiners' Union, fruit and from Mr« Adn:v. ~, unci a for tho A'crth Convalescent Eom« fcr Kc'turned Soldiers from Master itav Sprosen.