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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2533, 6 August 1915, Page 6

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DEFICIT ON MAYOR'S PATRIOTIC FUND. . At a meeting held last week it Was" announced that there was a debit in connection with tlie Mayor's Patriotic Fund, which has been doing good work in connection witli the comfort of the troops in camp, and by the purchase of tobacco, cigarettes, fruit, etc., from time to time. Subsequent to the meeting the treasurer (Mr. C. R. Smith) made an appeal for furtlier funds, and yesterday tho' Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) announced to a Dominion representative that the deficit bad been iviped out by" the receipt of a cheque for £115 from the Hon. \V. H. Herries (Minister of Railways), to whose generosity he and tho .members of the committee wero deeply grateful. Up till .Wednesday evening a total of £144 had been received towards this fund, and yesterday the following amounts were received Messrs. Bell, Gully, Bell, and Myers, £25; John Newton and Son, £25; Mr. Geo. MacMorran, £3; and "W. 8.," 10s.; bringing the total up to £197 10s. Mr. Luko stated that now the troops were returning to Trentham it would bo as obligatory as ever on tho part of tlie committee to do what it could to make tho lot of the men in camp as eomfortablo as possible, without mollycoddling them, and a- (rood deal rnoro money would bo required. He expressed the hope that citizens would emulate the spirit of those who had already given to place the- fund in a strong condition, for in addition to tho troops now in camp it was possible that another two battalions would be going into training at an early, date. At last night's meeting of the City Council the Mayor read the following letter lie had received from Mr. Herries :— "Dear Mr. Luke,—l see by an appeal is6ued by you that you require £115 to pay off a deficit in your patriotic funds. I enclose cheque for that amount far your fund." Tho announcement was received with applause. , Sir Isaac Newton, on being asked his opinion of poetry, replied that it was a, kind of ingenious nonsense. | Onr cruiser lay in Hobson's Boy, ! When black-eyed Susan came on board, , And when the crew s-pud lovely Sue, , All hands "manned-side" in glad accord. . Will Warspite clasped his blushing bride, [ Aand glancing round with manly pride, Ho kis.tcd sweet S'ue, in rapture pure, ' For bringing him Woods' Peppermint )J Cum,—Advli