BELGIAN RELIEF

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2458, 11 May 1915, Page 6

BELGIAN RELIEF

MAYOR'S (NEW) BELCIAN FUND. £ s. d. Scholars, Otaki School 0 9 7 Makotvhai School-children ... 2 7.6 Collected by the "Belgian Maid," Gr.P.O. Refreshment Rooms 2 0 0 "Rouseabout," Pahiatua ... 10 0 Scholars, _ Otaki School 0 9 7 Makowhai School children ... 2 7' 6 Collected by the "Belgian Maid," G.P.O. Refreshment. Rooms 2 0 0 "Rouseabout," Pahiatua ... 10 0 Dr. J. H. Kemp (3rd monthly instalment) 4 6 8 O. R. Martin, Poiigaroa ... 11 5 0 Employees A. Levy (10th weekly instalment) 1 1 10 Wellington Technical College, cost of prizes and collection donated by students 50 0 0 Ballance School Picnic 0 15 0 Residents of Bullauce and Mangahao (per Mrs.' F. G. Thompson) 8 11 6 Nursing Staff,- Wellington Hospital (3rd monthly instalment) 8 16 0 2192 16 3 "THE DOMINION" LIST. .

£ s. d. Previously acknowledged 24,826 910 I.D.Y 3 0 0 Philip Myers 2 2 0 '•H" _ 2 0 0 Collection, Te Horo Catholic Convent 12 6 Total to date 24,884 14 4 In reply to representations that steps . should be taken to stop the destruction of tuis near Waikanae, Mr. W. H. , Field, M.P., has (says the "Manawatu Herald") received a reply from the Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. H. D. Bell), who says:—"An inspector is being appointed under the Scenery Preservation Act to look after the Pafa» paraumu Scenic Reserve, and it is expected. that he will be able to prevent any further destruction of native birds on that reserve. In order to give the inspector wider powers it is proposed to also appoint hirn a ranger under the Animals' Protection Act, and he will thus be able to prevent the destruction J of native birds on lands adjoining the | reserve. I highly appreciate the interest 1 you take in our native birds and will do all I can to protect them, and will be 1 pleased to have any lands declared sano- ' tuaries under t-lie Animals' Protection 1 Act if the owners agree and particulars ' of the areas are supplied." The late Private Wilfred J. Bunting, of the Otego Infantry Battalion, whoEa name appeared in the New Zealand Roll of Honour as having died of wounds at the Dardanelles (tenth casualty list), was the great grandson of the famous collector of Irish folk song ; Edward Bunting, to whose scholarship, musical knowledge, and unremitting research Ireland owes the preservation of her national music. The death of Mrs. S. A. Slinky, an old Dovonport resident, which took place on Friday morning, breaks a link in tho connecuon of Auckland families with the romantic story of Sunday Island, in the South Pacifio (says an Auckland exchange). Mrs. Spinley was the granddaughter of Mrs. Baker, ona of the earliest isttlers on the island. The deceased lady, who was 52 years of age, had been a resident of Devonport for thirty-two years. Death was preceded by an operation two or three days ago. A farmer at a recent meeting held in Waiuku to consider the rabhit pest stated that he knew of an instance of one man who fattened ten year less than formerly, owing to tha depredations of rabbits, and he considered it was a question of exterminating , the rabbits or being exterminated by At their Waipoua Yards on Wednesday and at their Martinhorouffh Yards on Thursday Messrs. W. and G. TurnbuU and Co. will auction large yardmg3 of stock. . „ , The 1915 models of the Waverley cars, the latest three-seater English cars, have arrived in Now Zealand. The sole agents for Neu; Zealand, Messrs. Philips and Pike, Featherston Street, will give demonstration runs by appointment. Tho London Salvage Corps, maintain, ed by the various insurance compauie*, consists of ox-Navy lueu.