THE DOBSON DISASTER

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 72, 18 December 1926, Page 11

THE DOBSON DISASTER

LOCAL RELIEF FUND.

The Mayor (Mr. C. J. B. Norwood) yesterday acknowledged the following additional contributions to the Dobson relief fund:—R.T., £1 Is.; F. K. Kelling, £1 Is.; C.R.. 55.; L. IT. Tripp. £3 35.; ALA., 10s.; Mrs. C. Wilson, 55.: Miss Peach. 55.; A. 8.. £2; M. E. Cameron, £5; Air. and Mrs. J. P. Firth, £1 Is.; W., 10s.; T. AT. Butt, £1 Is.; W. E. Bethune. £2 25.: Government Printing Office, £5 55.; E.S., 55.; W. A. J. Dutch, £3 35.; Sir James Allen, £5 ss; John Swinson, £2 2s.

Through the chairman. Wellington section, New Zealand Public Service Association Government Life Insurance, £6 4s. 6d.; State Forest Service, £1 135.; Census and Statistics Department, £6 65.; Lands and Survey (head office), £3 65.; State Advances, £4 195.; Mental Hospitals Department. £2 7s; Lauds and Deeds Department. £4 10s.: Lands and Survey (district office). £1 165.; Stamp Duties Office, £2 7s. Bd.: Government Actuary Department. £3 55.: Land and Income Tax Department, £ll 125.; Re-gistrar-General’s Department. 18s.; Customs Department, £5 13s. 6d.; Valuation Department, £2. Total. £56 17s. Bd. The Mavor’s fund now stands at £176 4s. Bd. SYMPATHY FROAI CITY COUNCIL. Reference to the Dobson mine disaster was made bv the Major (Air. C. J. B. Norwood) at last night’s meeting of the City Council. The unfortunate happening, he said, had cast a gloom over the whole community, and he feltsure that councillors would join with him in expressing sympathy with the relatives of those who had lost breadwinners in the disaster. On the Mayor’s motion, a vote of sympathy with all who had suffered be-, reavement was passed, the councillors all rising to their feet. The Mayor intimated that as the result of the public appeal he had made tlie sum of £179 6s. Bd. had been subscribed towards the relief fund.