WINTER BELIEF OF DISTRESS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20829, 12 April 1933, Page 10

WINTER BELIEF OF DISTRESS.

GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S FUND. CONTRIBUTIONS TO DATE. (pjUSBS ASSOCIATION TELEOBAM.) WELLINGTON, April 11. The following monetary contributions, promises, and gifts-in-kind to the Governor-General's winter fund were received during the first 24 hours following the issue of the a PP eal:_ £ s. d. The Governor-General and Lady Bledisloe, 12 fat sheep and •• 100 0 0 Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes 10 10 0 Dr. J. S. Elliott, Weilington .. • • 10 10 U "A Hale and Hearty Australian" visiting New Zealand • • u u Mr J. Connolly, M.P., 40 fat sheep or the cash equivalent and .. 1U u u James Smith, Ltd., Weilington •• • • oO u u Mr and Mrs T. Parnell, Palmerston • ■ inn Anonymous • • i c n Sir Cecil and Lady Day 5 5 0 Lieutenant c n n Thomson, R.N., A.D.C. 5 0 0 Captain J. W. Tweedie, A.D.C. . • • * d u u Miss Diana Harris • • ®J 9 Mrs G. C. Veal • • 5 0 0 Mr D. E. Fouhy • • 2 l u Mr J. H. James • • ?« n Miss Rayner, Wellington 1 0 0 Miss Cocker ill, Wellington •• •• ! J » Anonymous . ■ • • inn A. F. Morley, Auckland 1 u u Palmerston North Rotary Club • * * Henry Buttle, Sumner 0 5 0 Geo. B. Menzjes, Napier 1 1 0 Mr and Mrs W Campbell, Upper Hutt .. u RB. Castle, Wellington 010 0 t Mr and Mrs A. Samuels, Eastbourne • • ? 0 " C. J. Adams, Palmerston | North ■ • • 5 0 0 John Court, Ltd., Auck- n land -• A •• 100 0 0 Miss K. Keesing, Auckland •• , c •• 50 0 Mrs A. G. Brookfield, Wanganui .. •• ton "Canny Scot," Auckland 10 0 W. J. Saxby, Cambridge, one sack of potatoes, two sacks of pumpkins, and .. 100 Total - • .. 418 13 0 Gifts in Kind. J Purvis, Trentham, six fat sheep. Donald McDonald, Edendale, one truck of fat sheep and one truck of C3ttl6i The Wellington-Raetihi Transport Company, Wellington, free transport of goods from the country to the Anonymous, Wellington, 52 bags of C W °t. Grubb, Wellington, four bags of coal.

A Visitor's Donation. A few hours after the appeal for the Governor-General's Winter Relief Fund was published, an Australian visitor, who prefers not to disclose rus identity, called at Government House. Wellington, and handed in the following letter wvth its accompanying donation: "I have read in this morning s newspaper the appeal of his Excellency the Governor-General and Lady Bledisloe, on behalf of distressed people in ail parts of New Zealand for contributions to the fund known as the Governor-General's Winter Relief Fund. "As a visiting Australian who has made many pleasurable visitations to this delightfully situated and loyal Dominion during the last 25 years, I hasten to respond to the very worthy appeal and show my hearty appreciation thereof by sending you, enclosed herewith, my humble contribution of £SO towards the aforesaid fund. "Wishing the appeal, his lordship, and her ladyship, a most generous and quick response,—l am, Very Truly Yours, "A HALE AND HEARTY AUSTRALIAN." ,