PATRIOTIC FUNDS
PRIME MINISTER'S LIST. The Prime Minister has received the following further contributions to the patriotic fund :—: — £ s. d.
The Ohariu school children have decided that the proceeds of a concert which was held on Wednesday in aid of their prize fund should be devoted to the Belgian Fund. For the Carnival to be held at th© Basin Reserve on Wednesday next, 9th instant, in aid_ of the Patriotic Fund, the Rugby Union has been asked to arrange an "Old Timers' Football Match." The teams will consist of fifteen, a-side and will be played in two, spells of fifteen minutes each. The following committee has been set up to arrange a match : — Messrs. A. Laurenson, W. Perry. D. Weir, G. H. Dixon, Ei 0. Hales, E. t Wylie. '- " The ladies of Lower Hutt have collected to date the sum of £32? 19s 6d towards the Countess of Liverpool's fund. Additional donations to those already | published are as follow : — H. Peterkin, £5 ss ; a Sympathiser, £20 ; Mr. Rasmussen, £10; E. P. Bunny, £5; J. Brasell, £2 2s; Mrs. Parsons, £2 2s; H. E. Kempthorne, £5 ; Loo Quong, £2 ; patriotic meeting, £16 12s ; patriotic concert, £30; S. Simpson and employees, £7 6s; sundries, £122 8s 6(1. At a meeting' of the .trustees of the Lower Hutt Methodist Church, it was' decided to offer an acre of land in tho vicarage grounds ior potato planting purposes. %
Miss Agnes Macfarlanej Christchurch 10 0 Residents of Culverden (and gifts of oats, chaff, and potatoes) 51 13 0 Clyde Patrjotic Fund, Alexandra 100 0 0 Waimana Patriotic Fund (F. H. Bell £10. F. Palmer £5, A. Anderson £10, G. Hewitt £5, D. C. Anderson £10. R. A. Yeoman £3, G. A. M'Donald £8 10s) 51 10 0 Through Raglan County Council (from Waingaro Riding), Ngaruawahia (Mr. Coleman £11, J. Schaefer £1. E. and J. Seavill 4s, j. Ken- £5) 17 4 0 Residents of Bulls and district (third instalment) ... 33 12 0 Wellington Rugby Football Union (proceeds of special football match played at Athletic Park on 15th August, in aid of fund, at which the gatemen donated their wage* for the afternoon also to the fund) ... 12 9 0 The Law Society of -the district of Otago and Southland (voted) ... ' ... 100 0 0 Pukekohe Patriotic Fluid (second instalment) ... 200 0 0 Through Wanganui Borough Council (second instalment) 814 14 10 Manga jveka subscribers (second instalment) 302 0 0 Spreydon Borough Council (voted) 50 0 0 Manchester U.1.0.0.F., Otago district- (voted), Dunedin... 100 0 0 Hastings Empire- Defence Committee (second instalment) ... , 314 15 4 Akaroa committees (through Borough Council) ... ... 635 17 1 Mount Benger Patriotic Fund, Roxburgh 180 0 0 E. M. Powell Barry, Ma- • ngaonoho and Poukiora (Ambulance Fund) ... 6 0 0 A. J. Mackay, Paekakariki 10 10 0 G. F. Bothomley 2 0 0 MAYOR'S PATRIOTIC FUND. £ s. d. Amount previously acknowledged 2290 1 8 S. S. Williams Co., Ltd. ... 20 0 0 Nightingale Trained Nurses' Hostel 2 10 0 B. Russo 10 0 £2313 II 8 MAYOR'S DISTRESS FUND. .£ s. d. Amount previously acknowledged 1498 12 11 Mrs. Shelly 2 0 0 £1500 12 11
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 57, 4 September 1914, Page 2
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