DISPOSAL OF WAR GAINS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15767, 7 December 1916, Page 10

DISPOSAL OF WAR GAINS.

SREEPFARMERS' GIFT TO ..*."' ' ".' . SOLDIERS. '•We notice .that the Imperial Government is giving us wool-growers a big' advance on pre-war rates. That extra money does not belong to us but to, the boys.who aro fighting for ns." An expression of this sentiment-, together with a cheque for £1000, has been forwarded (sav s the Wellington '•Post 1 ' of Tuesday) to Mr E. C. Browncll. Xational Secretary of the Young-Men's-Christian Association, by a well-known family of wool-growers iii response to the appeal for funds for the purchase- of-comforts for tho soldiers at the front. The writers ask the y.M.C.A. to distribute the money in the shape of comforts as it has beoh doing in the past.- "The cheque represents our. estimated war profits on wool this year," the writers conclude, "and wo hope, there will bo ." further sum available for you after the sale of the clip." " ' i<y Tuesday morning's mail Mr Brownoil received a further sum or £124 us 6d towards the Ashburton Hutment Fund., making.a total of £763 -j s <xlThe .'National. _ Committee of the Y.M.G.A. is sending a specia.l Jotter ot tbanks and appreciation to the Mayor of •Asiiourtou (Mr'R. Galbraith) and'his committee. A telegram was also received stating that the Waitaki High School, Oamani, has raised-an additional sum of £100 i making its tota] to date £.150. A further cheque for £500 has coine. from Hawke's Bay. being the total of. amounts.'earmarked' bv donors to the War Belief Association for transfer through Mr G. A. R. Mackav for x.AI.u.A. war work.