PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 59, 7 September 1914, Page 2

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

EVENING BOST LIST. Citizens who wish to help in the defence of the Empire against tho challenge of Germany and Austria, are invited to subscribe to a list' which has been opened by the Evening Post, by request. The following subscriptions aro to hand : — i Already acknowledged ... £2221 9 4 Master, officers, and part crew s.s. Mapourika ... . 7 13 6 Watkins, Tyer, and Tolan, Ltd. (proceeds of souvenir sales), Ist instalment % 11 0 Flower sales (Mrs. James Gibson) 10 0 Total £2233 3 10 MAYOR'S 'DISTRESS FUND. Employees of the Wellington Gas Company (Miramar works), £20 9s 6d. . Employees of the Railway Workshops, Petone, £17 17s. Tho Prime Minister has written as follows to tho hon. secretary of the Mayor of Wellington's Patriotic Fund : "Dear Sir, — I have to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 29th ult.. forwarding cheque for £2000, the first instalment of contributions to the Patriotic Fund through the Wellington Patriotic Fund Committee, and also enclosing offers of goods received from Messrs. W. and G. Turnbull and Co , Ltd., and Messrs. W. Dimock and Co., Ltd. On behalf of the Government 1 desiro to express our appreciation of tile generosity and patriotic spirit shown by the various donors, and will bo glad if you will see that an intimation to that e'ifect is duly conveyed to them.— Yours sincerely, (signed) W. F. Massey."-