BELGIUM FUND.
; NEW ZEALAND CONTRIBUTIONS. (FROit OUR OWN CORItESrONDENT.) LONuON, March 3. Among' the subscriptions recently receivet by tbo Hatior.ui Committee for Relief ii Belgium is another munificent donation o • £17,182 Irom ;\ow through the Hon I Sir Thomas Mackenzie, being £15,000 fron the Government and people of tho Do minion, £-2000 from the l J oor of Great Bri tain, Ireland, und Belgium ltelief l'und 1 Christchurch, and the balance from miscellaneous 'laneous sources. The totai amount to dati received from New Zealand is 1,760. A letter from New Zealand saying tha all the echoota from tho North Cape t< Bluff have been most kind in sending mono; for tho Belgian Babies' Milk Fund, hai been received by Miss Constance Holmea 1 hon. secret,an' of the Belgian Refugee Foot f Fund. Miss Holmes and tho committee o 3 tho fund desire most heartily to thank tb< :• children of the school* in New Zealand fo i- their seneroU9 contributions. Their help n very greatly appreciated, and through it th- .. committee havo been able to help many : poor mother and baby. (PitESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) NEW PLYMOUTH, April 13. A second donation of £1000 has been givei bv the Hon. O. Samuel, M.L.C., to the fcel giuin Relief Fund.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15567, 17 April 1916, Page 9
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