WAR FUNDS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 16078, 7 December 1917, Page 5

WAR FUNDS.

EED CROSS FUND. RANGIOKA. Still more workers are wanted, especially at the Bandage Room, whore henceforth garments are to be made, and an appeal is made to all those who have any spare time to give their help. The treasurer acknowledges receipt of the following:—Marjorie and Esther Hills (sale of flowers) 8s Id, half proceeds club card parties (per Mr Good) £2 10s, Gorten Wise and Willie Taylor (Guy Fawkes collection) 7s 3d, Jack Thompson and Edward. Oggs (Guy Fawkes collection) 4s, Noel Bell (birthday party) 10s, Mrs Hutchison ss, Mr Henry Barker (Loburn) ss. Gifts have been received- from the following:—Mrs Rowse, Anonymous (per Mrs Kowse). LADY LIVERPOOL FUND. Cash Donations:—Sale of flowers 2s 9d, staff Woolston School (monthly donation) £1 16s, Mrs Campion 2s, Mis Rumgay 10s, A Friend 2s, A Friend ss, Mr B. Forward , (donation, flower stall) £1 Is, Mrs T. D. Boag (donation, flower stall) ss, Mrs G. Callonder (.donation, flower stall) 10s, Mrs Swinnerton (monthly donation) 6s, Eyreton Ministering Children's League (result of sale ot work) £15, the employees of Messrs Aulsebrook and Co. (weekly donation) £1 7s 3d, F.D.W. (monthly donation) £4, Mrs . Simes (flower stall) 10s, Miss Cowan (result of presentation of "A: Royal Fugitive") £13 Is 3d, Mr F. Pratt £2, Mrs George Gould' (donation, flower stall) £1, Mrs A. F. J. Mickle (donation towards Rest Fund for the Voluntary Nurses in Egypt) £1, Sefton Branch (donation £1 2s Gd, balance of Pom Pom Pierrot concert 6e), total £1 8s 6d, A- and H.A. (comforts for men in Palestine) £2 2s, Tai Tapu Branch (balance of Pom Pom) Pierrot concert) 10s, Darfield Branch (result of Pom Pom Pierrot concert) £21 5s Gd. Mrs B. Deardon 6s, Kaiapoi Branch (donation) £5, "We, Us, and Co." (Rangiora) £1 10s, Mrs T. Wylio (donation £1 weekly for October, November and December) £13, Pendarves Branch (special cash donation) £30. REDCLIFFS. | A meeting of the Red cliffs Committee ol the Lady Liverpool Fund was hold last night, when Mr G. H. Woods presided over a good attendance. The secretary reported having forwarded a large number of articles to the town depot. The xeceipta from the house-to-house canvas were £23 5s lid to date.

"Australans may well follow the example of the English. Food Controller, Lord Rhondda, who has. been eating less," said an Adelaide doctor interested in the food question, to a representative of the "South Australian Register" last week. "They should especially reduce the quantity of meat. It used to be thought that meat was the natural food of man, but investigators havo found that that is not so. Meat has a large number of by-products, and until they are eliminated they have a deleterious effect on the body. Man's natural food is vegetable. The Chinese and Hindoos cat rice, the Arab dates, South Americans maize, and other lands have the banana. Dr; Cheyne, the author of The English Malady,' had a big practice in London, and he experienced tbe benefits of dieting. He was very fond of high living, and weighed 30 stone, but he did not enjoy life; in. fact, there was so much of him that every part could not be well at the same time. He reduced his food consumption, and decreased his weight to 12 stone. He then felt a new man, and could attend to his work with perfect ease. He published his experiences for the benefit of the profession and the public. H e died in his 72nd year. There can be no doubt that if the Australians had a food economy campaign for the sake of their bodies, not so much as of their pnrses. and through necessity, as in England, they would live longer, and would relish things all the more."