RELIEF OF OVERSEAS POOR

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 44, 22 February 1915, Page 2

RELIEF OF OVERSEAS POOR

FOURTH INSTALMENT, £16,800. TOTAL CASH REMITTANCES, £66,000. His Excellency the Governor (the Earl of Liverpool), as patron of the Poor of Great Britain and Ireland and Belgium Relief Fund, reports that he has to-day transmitted by cable to the High Commissioner in London the sum of £16,800, as a fourth cash contribution from the fund. The amount has been provided by the various branches of the fund in tho Canterbury, Marlborough, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay, and Wellington provincial districts, and also includes the sums of money sent to the Treasury for British and Belgian relief. Tho special instructions of each committee and the wishes of those giving donations for a special purpose, have all been strictly observed, and the sum will be apportioned as follows : For the poor of Great Britain and Ireland (to be handed to the executive of the Prince of Walea's Fund for administration), £3661 3s 4d ; for Belgian relief (to be given to the proper Belgian authorities for distribution), £13,138 16s Bd. The total cash contributions now transmitted in connection with th© fund amount to £66,000. Very valuable shipments of frozen meat are also being sent forward as opportunity offers, and the contributions of clothing have been | of a most generous character.