SOLDIERS' COMFORTS FUND

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2767, 10 May 1916, Page 3

SOLDIERS' COMF ORTS FUND

•'' -fr-f..' • •__ . EBPOBT ANDfiAL'iNCE.SHEET. This is a fund starter- li n Ju i- lgls b ' * of the ; Military Hospital tl t W°</, eCel^ and - distribute contorts !r„ fe^ k v S °? d:e I s ■' * the various niilitary nospitals, m the y ,Wellington district, Mis. A. E. Pearce ,'jind Mrs . M. Myers Usurer r Tha chief tJ, \ ?> mimttee ■■* £* IJcen to provide £ T »,■ cakes; and jellies to the hospitals; afe 0 any otilev comforfe d necessaries, thar ; haveibeen asked for ill • ? ~t o . bme " --s»ch as gramophone l|.-<w, daily paper E , games, books, cigar- ._«», .sweets, toot! a-brushes, vegetables,

-The- hospitals to , which gifts have been sent are tho -folly.;wing :-Trentlmm EaaC °l lr f e ,s°, spltaI ' frentham Military Hospital Wellingtos Military Hospital (Victoria),- Oriental Say Convalescent Hospital, : Davis St; reet Hospital (Private), .Upper Hiitt Coi p-alescent Hospital, Heretaunga,-; Hospital 1; (Golf House), Kaiwarra Convalcsceut I /bspital (Levin and Co/a btore),: BerhanVpore. The amount < if; goods 1 sent to these hospitals since Jr dy 5, -1915, till March 31, 1916, is as M'-lows:—Fish,-66611b.; cake, 4361b.; 87 cases; apples, 75 cases; pines, 7 casasi; lemons, 17 cases; honey, W)ll>. ; pears, 1; cases; tomatoes, 25 boxes. ; Many linn/'J t-eds of dozen eggs have also been sent,,/a:i well as cases- of fruit. The committco especially wish to thank tho women of pahinttia, who havo sent Ithrougbi Mis. P.' Thomson) many largo :rates of eft rs. The committee also wish to thank 3 Kiss Shirtcli/io and Miss Kenuedy for d sliverim; parcels.to the hospi;aK '■-..;

All the soldiers iii' hospitals at Christ•nias recei yed-d gift of.a ; pipe, tin of tobacco, chocolate, and two handkerchiefs. , each; also large Christmas cakes, iri.th greetings from the Military Hospital 'Guild.- .--..- Tho -hi :i'lanec-sheot of the Soldiers' Comforts J> rfnd shows'donations from July 5, 1915, tt... April.G, 1916, amounting.to .£331 2s. 7d, / :The statement of expenditure is as ,fo/uj>ws:—Payments made for. fish, fruit,', etc., for soldiers -in"hospitals (as per voucliers), 6s. Id.; cheque books, telegi tims, postages, fruit, eau de Cologne, etc.,. for hospitals,- £i 13s. ,9d.:'the total omoj jiting to J5279 19s. 10d., The cash in the Uanks shows a- total of .£SO 16s. 3d., and cash in hand amounts to Gs. 6d. . T.'iio following donations and comforts Mve. been received at i Mercer Street:—' La/Jy Ward, .^3; : Mrs. John Hutcheson, £1 ; .C.L.K., JJI; eggs and jellies, Miss bead, Mrs. "Walter Nathan, Mrs. Joseph, M; iss Whooler, and Mrs. E. JI. WHc o n (Ketone).: '::'•,