DISTRESS RELIEF

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2369, 27 January 1915, Page 6

DISTRESS RELIEF

POOR OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND AND BELGIUM FUND. £ s. d. Previously acknowledged... 27,858 3 8 Hastings Jockey Club, -per Hastings Empire Defence I Committee 525 0 0 R.W.T. ........ 2 2 0 Proceeds of sale of "Scrap of Paper" Calendar and lecture on Joan of Aro by Rev. E. H. Hobday, per His Worship the Mayor . 100 0 0 Ingfis Bros, additional, por His Worship tie Mayor 10 0 £28,486 5 8 MISERY AND WANT IN BELGIUM. PITIFUL SCENES; By Telaermsli—Presa Association—COitrrle tit (Rec. January 26, 5.5 pan.) London, Jaunty 25. Fifty thousand destitute people throng the Brussels relief kitchens., Soup is distributed daily from twentyone canteens, under the protection of the American flag. Outside the townships the villagers are searching the fields in the hope of finding stray potatoes, and pick the fruit rotting in the orchards. : Old people return home to die rather than face new lands, while the young are going forth to other lands, with poor bundles of rags on their shoulders.—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" services. We have to acknowledge receipt of a bundle of fiction and magazines from Mrs. Wetherall, for the Trentham Camp Library. ' / THE "DOMINION" LIST. BELGIAN RELIEF FUND, Contributions to the_ fund for the relief of the Belgians in distress will subsequently be forwarded to tho authorities in Belgium for distribution. , £ s. d Amount previously acknow- . ledged 13,930 17 2 ! Bayley A'Deanc, Takapau... 30 0 0 Proceeds of social at Makara (per S. Bawler) _ 5 1 0 Christchurch Sunday School (per Miss I. M. Buck) 15 0 Airs. W. Cool; (sale of roses, second instalment) 10 0 Total 13,003 3 2^