LOCAL DISTRESS FUND

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 58, 5 September 1914, Page 8

LOCAL DISTRESS FUND

♦ SOCIAL ORGANISATIONS MEET. A meeting of voluntary charitable and social service organisations of the city was fcsld in No. 1 Committee Room at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon for the purpose of discussing and arranging means of relieving local distress occasioned by the war. The meeting was convened by the chairman of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board (the Rev, W. A. Evans), the bodies which were asked to send representatives being : The Two Garment Society, Ladies' Christian Association, St. John's Church Social •Service Guild, Kent-terrace Church Socipty and Service Guild. St. Mark's Church Social Service Guild, Methodist Union Social Service Guild, Union Social Service Guild, Salvation Army, St. John Ambulance Nursing Guild, Women's Christian Temperance Union, Society for the Protection of Women and Children, Y.W 0.A., Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, A.0.D., A.0.F., Victoria League, Society for the Protection oi the Health of Women and Children, ■Moral and Physical Health Society, Women Teachers' Association, Victoria College Students' Christian Association, Union of Women Workers, and the New Zealand Natives 1 Association. There -was a large attendance. On the motion of Archdeacon Harper, sf conded by Mr. J. P. Luke, it was resolved— "That this meeting recommends that a special committee be set up to administer a special fund for the relief of war distress, the committee to have its special fund, to be administered from the Town Hall or other independent centre, under section 63 of the Hospitals and Charitable Aid Institutions Act." A meeting will be held at a later date tq set up the committee. The Mayor (Mr, J. P. Luke), when seen by a Post representative this morning, stated that the Mayor's War Distress Fund would be kept entirely for relieving distress actually occasioned by the war, and would not be trenched upon for any other purpose. The committee associated with him was already carrying out its work, and would Welcome the machinery of the Hospital Board for preventing overlapping. Residents of Kaiwarra are notified by advertisement that, tho water supply will bo turned off at 8.50 a.m. on Monday, for inspection and repairs.

Their Excellencies the Earl and Countess of Liverpool will attend the Rotorua Maori Choir's concert in the Town Hall next Wednesday evening. All coons are said to look alike. Al Herman, the American comedian, who has just reached Sydney from California, says they don't. He has studied them too, and studied them most seriously, because his chief business in life is imitating them. He declares that while there is a lot of quaint humour in all coons, there are many who are dull and humorless. He has spent a great deal of time among the southern negroes, choosing and studying characters upon which to model his own turn. Herman is a „ black-faced comedian. That is to say, that although he is a white man, and a clever One too, he prefers to disguise himself in the colour and costume of a, southern negro, and fire off funny talk such as a coon would be likely to use. Jupp's Band will play at Newtown Park to-morrow afternoon, and take up a collection in aid of tho Patriotio Fund.