PATRIOTIC FUND

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 61, 9 September 1914, Page 2

PATRIOTIC FUND

WAIRARAPA CONTRIBUTES HANDSOMELY PRIME MINISTER'S LIST. The Prime Minister has received the following further contributions :■ — £ s. d. Lochicl Dairy Factory shareholders, Winton 20 4 6 Buckley Defence Fund Committee, Tolago Bay ... 200 0 0 Wairarapa War Fund— Masterton ...^ 6824 0 0 Carterton 798 0 0 Greytown 600 0 0 Featherston 1387 0 0 Martinborough 980 0 0 (And gifts of chaff, fodder, horses, saddles, bridles, and all equipments) W. and G. Turnbutl and Co., Ltd. (through Mayor), Welj lington (and services of ' staff and motors, Wanga* nui, and motor launch, Picton) 100 0 0 Coromandel County Fund. ... 71 8 0 Orakei Defence Fund subscribers, Auckland ... 89 16 0 Borough and County of Akaroa (gifts of 9 horses and saddle and bridle) Reefton Jockey Club ... 52 10 0 Walton Farmers' Unic-A Pa< triotic Fund (from subscriptions and gifts sold), for equipping expeditionary forra>, and horse ... 100 0 0 N.Z. Institute of Architects, \ Wellington branch (first instalment) 25 0 0 Staff of Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Co. ■ . 37 10 0 Mohaka Natives (Wairoa, County) ' ...- 35 0 0 Patea and District Patriotic League (second instalment) 110 0 0 W. H Beecher, Levin ... 310 0 Palmerston North Branch Farmers' Union (tirst instalment) 300 0 0 ; Port Awanui residents, Gkborne district 126 12 9 MAYOR'S PATRIOTIC FUND. £ s. d. Amount previously acknowledged 2366 0 2 Jupp's Brass Band Collection 10 0 0 Total £2376 0 2 MAYOR'S WAR DISTRESS FUND. £ s. d. Amount previously acknow- " ledged 1586 5 5 Kaiapoi Woollen Company ... 100 0 0 Odlin's Social Committee ... 613 0 Normandale Social Committee 3 0 0 Total £1695 18 5 The Johnsonville Town Board decided recently to take a vote of the ratepayers as to whether it should vote £100 to the patriotic fund. The poll was held yesterday and resulted in the rejection of the proposal by 48 votes to 18. The Brooklyn committee appointed to assist'in augmenting tho Patriotic Fund and Mayor's Relief Fund met last evening, Mt. Alister Brown presiding. Favourable reports Were' received from subcommittees, and- offers of assistance, including half the proceeds from the entertainment to be held in Fullford'B Hall, Brooklyn, on Friday, by Mrs. D. C. Bates, in conjunction, with the , English, Church. The secretary of tho Wellington Harmonic Society, Mrs. A. A. Lemmon. kindly offered to assist in a concert which will be arranged by Messrs H. Temple White, A. Clarkson, and D. Kennedy. The Brooklyn Patriotic Dance will be held at Fullfor&'s Hall on Thursday week, the 17th September, for which Mrs. T. Chapman ha-s arranged the music. Mrs. Aulin and Mrs. Moran reported that they had received so many offers of assistance for the supper that it would not entail any expense on the committee. A proposal, ' which was favourably received, was to have a toll gate (constructed of ribbons) across the Ohiroroad and access to Brooklyn on a Saturday afternoon (provided the necessary permit is obtained), and a committee of ladies was appointed to carry it out. Mr. W. reported the offer from the country of a live sheep, and a committee was appointed to sco if it could utilise this in connection with a Jumble Sale and Entertainment to be held later on.- Mr. P. N. Denton also offered to provide a lantern entertainment with Indian views.^