PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2499, 28 June 1915, Page 2

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

THE HOSPITAL SHIP Further donations received by the Un-der-Secretary, Department of Internnl Affairs, towards the New Zealand Hospital Ship Fund are:— £ e. 4. Previously acknowledged 37,905 o 1 Members of St. .lolin Ambulance Brigade, Overseas, Hawera and District : <15 16 3 Workmen East Coast Railway Works (Tauranga-Tanoatua Section) • 72 10 9 Umutaoroa Patriotic Committee (through Town Clerk, Nnpier) 59 4 0 Dannevirke Patriotic Committee (through Town Clerk, Napier) 42 9 9 Subscriptions received through the following Post Offices:— Ciisborne .C 2 3s. 2:1., Raglan .£2 75., Tangowahine Residents -£30, Queenstown .El 3s. 6d., Ifangnwckn .£IOO (Uiiahine Patriotic Fund), Waikanao Is. Gd. (<Gl.'ts 15s. 2d.) ... 135 15 2 c£35,961 1 0 NATIONAL FUND. Mr. Nicholson, treasurer of the Lower Hutt branch of the National Fund lor Dependents of Wounded Soldiers and Sailors has received the following donations :— £ s". (1. Already acknowledged 911 3 G Dr. Ansoii 100 0 5 J. Lynch, } * ° Alex. Barry <>0 0 G-aisby Bros 2 2 0 Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bock 2 2 0 Mr. M'Laehlan, Pretoria St. ... 22 0 Stalls Sales, per Mrs. Yeats ... 18 6 3 Dance proceeds, per Misses Xeazer and Mitten 5 0 0 Proceeds Bazaar, Eastern Hutt School : 33 15 ? Proceeds Bazaar, Miss Ivy Skinner 10 0 0 Proceeds Ticket sales, sundries .69 15 6 Proceeds Ticket sales, per Burdon Bros 5 0 0 •£1195 7 10 WOUNDED SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' AND DEPENDENTS' FUND. His Worship the Mayor acknowledges the following:— iS e. d. Amount previously acknowledged •„ 11.1S8 S 0 Proceeds of Patriotic Dance, in Concert Hall, per A. R. Charlton ..... 32 16 0 i 11,221 4 0 GEE-MAN-BORN AUSTRALIANS' EFFORT. Adelaide, June 26. A meeting of German-born Australians has inaugurated a fund to assist wounded soldiers. FOR BELGIAN RELIEF. "THE DOMINION" LIST. X s. d. Previously acknowledged 26,113 6 0 Waimii-o-mata Patriotic Committee '•••• 2 2 0 £26,115 8 0

Tho new official telephone directory for Wellington .has just been issued. During tho past year, with the introduction of the automatic system, a great many subscribers' numbers havo been changed, and the telephone authorities reQuest that all old lists be destroyed. Tho result of the annual competition for tho best three-acre crop of swedes (flat or ridged), held under the auspices of the Masterton A. and i*. Association, has just been announced. The best crop was that of Messrs. Wilton Bros., of To Rangitumau, which produced 33 tons 15 civt. to the acre. The second most successful crop was that of Mr. H. H. Kummer, of Mauriceville. Heavy, warm rains havo fallen in the AVairarapa during the past week, and have produced a splendid growth of grass.