HEPPLE FUND.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 26, 31 July 1911, Page 8

HEPPLE FUND.

- The Rev. M. Bawden Harris, treasurer of the. Hepple Fund, acknowledges receipt of tfcft following additional subscriptions : Proceeds Mrs. Bunny's concert, £44 10s ; Terrace Congregational Church (second donation), £6 Is; per Miss Carte?— Mrs. J r Barnard, £1$ Mrs. T. Scandlyn, 2s 6d j T.W.C. 2s, S.M. 2s 6d, G.F. 2s "&d, G.D 2s 6d— 9s 6d; E. Is, Helper 10s, Mrs. Freeman 2s 6d-^l3s 6d, A public meeting will be held in St. James's Hall, Lower Hutt, to-morrow evening^ at 7,45, when Mr. J. W. Reade will give an account of his stewardship, and ask for instructions re the £410 in the Post Office. Mr. E. P. Bunny, chairman of the fund, has received the following further amounts:— Brooklyn Glee Club, £10; Per Mr. W. J, Greig: Petone Workshops, £13 18s 6d; concert Upper Hutt, £14 10s *6d; Upper Hutt subscription Mst, £3 7s (chief contributors R. Quinn £2, Mrs. Quinn £1). lO'THB BDITOft, Sir,— ln your reference to the Hepple Fund in last night's issue, you mention that Mr. J. W. ReaSe in a. letter addressed to yon refers to committees 1, 2, and 3. For the information of sub' ecribers No. 1 that he speaks of, was .1 self-appointed committee of six (6) persons who met at a private house, which has been, since supplemented. At the last meeting of this committee, which his letter refers to, three of the original committee refused to < attend.' No: 2 consists of twelve ladies, who were appointed at a public meeting of ladies, held in the Congregational Church, Alicetown, which was crowded to overflowing. No. 3 that Mr. Reade asserts, has "arrogated to itself the right to do as it pleases, "consists of the Mayors of Hutt and Petone, Father Lane, Rev. Mr. Harris, Dr. Purdy, Messrs. Baldwin, Freeth, Pinny, Trotman, and Reade, and was appointed at & large publit, meeting held in St. James's Hall. Subscrib-' ers will judge whether or no No. 1, the private self-appointed committee, is a representative one, and had the right' to elect persons to act as trustees, and invest money for Mrs, Hepple, as in his, letter to you Mr. Reade says has been done, even to giving their names. As for No. 3 "arrogating to itself the right to do a« it pleases," that this is not the case is proved by the fact that at its meeting on Tuesday when it dispensed with Mr. Reade's services as hon. secretary, a- resolution was passed to the effect that a meeting should be held next week, of the various committees, ! including, of course, No. 1, and also representatives of contributors in Wellington for the purpose of determining how the fund should be disbursed,— I am, etc., LOWER HUTT. I 28th July,, 1911.