RELIEF FUND.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1909, Page 8

RELIEF FUND.

The number of callers on Mr. G. Willis, the secretary of the Citizens' Unemployed Relief Fund, continues to be large. Between thirty and forty gave in their names this morning, making the total number of unemployed registrations, on the secretary's books, 360. The latest subscriptions to the fund are as follow : — £ s d Samuel Gilmer 25 0 0 J. H. Bethune and Co. ... 10 0 0 J. G. Wilson (Bulls) 10 0 0 Briscoe and Co. 5 5 0 Courtenay-place Congregational 'Church 5 5 0 Edward Anderson 5 0 0 C. M. Luke 5 0 0 Per Miss Sybil Thirkell ... 211 1 Mrs. Jessie M'Rae 2 2 0 Mrs. Hume 2 2 0 The total amount actually in the bank is £561 8s 7d. A cheque for £25 has been handed to •Mr. Tregear, Secretary for Labour, by Mr. A. 'R. Lodder, accompanied with a request that Mr. Tregear will distribute the money in small amounts to deserving workers who, in his opinion, most need help. iMr. Lodder has also given orders for coal, meat, and bread, to be distributed in the same way. ' EVENING POST LIST. £ s. d. Amount Announced 69 16 6 R.D 2 6 Organ 'Grinder's Mite ... ... 6 M.A.C 5 0 Towser .., ' 2 0 Total to date 70 6 6 WORK STARTED. Twenty-four out of the twenty-five men engaged by the Citizens' Relief Committee to labour at Victoria College grounds attended p-unctually this morning, and made a beginning. A donation of tools, in addition to a monetary subscription, has been niad6 to the committee's funds and ajssets by Messrs. Briscoe and Co. A deputation, representing the committee, is to wait upon the finance committee of the Harbour Board, this afternoon, and urge that all possible expedition be made with the preparations for starting the works contemplated by the board.