AUGMENTING THE FUND

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 35, 11 February 1931, Page 11

AUGMENTING THE FUND

VARIOUS ACTIVITIES

A well-attended meeting presided over by Mr. Norman, was held by the residents of Ohiro Bay. Several schemes were decided on to help swell the Mayor's fund. Mr. Swadling was appointed secretary. Mrs.-Mercer presented a doll, which is to be raffled. Mr. Hai'ison Cook has been appointed convener of the Entertainment ComJ mittee. which is to control' concerts at the Town Hall for the Belief Fund. The use of the Town Hall will be given free, but there must be prospects of raising a considerable sum by such efforts before the use of the Town Hall will be granted. ' , : The Stokes Valley "Women's Institute, of which Mrs. L. Hawthorne is president, intends holding a garden fete on Saturday at Mrs. Hawthorne's home, "Mayville," Stokes Valley. l A sacred concert will be held in the King George Theatre; Lower Hutt, on Sunday, 22nd February. Tho Boys' Institute committee and members are co-operating with the relief organisations, and accommodation ia offered for twelve boys. The band is prepared to assist any organisation in raising funds. Mr. Arthur Mackay presided at a meeting at Paekakariki and started a donation list with £100. About 75 per cent, of those present wore railway workers and dependants, andthey passed1 a resolution to give a day's pay to the fund. Up to the present thero has been no refusal to give a day's pay as a minimum. About £250 has already been raised, and four canvassers are out collecting. • ' Tho Parents' Association of tho Seatoun School has decided not to hold tho annual school picnic this year, but to devoto tho proceeds to, tho relief fund. 'Expressions of sympathy with earthquake sufferers have been received from the following:—Mcs. Bedford Fenwiek, president of the British Trained Nurses' Association and editor of the British "Journal of Nursing"; Grand United Order of Oddfellows, New South Wales; Lower Hutt Borough Council; Italian Red Cross Society; Wellington Chamber of Commerce; Messrs. Ferranti, Ltd., Hollinwood, Lancashire. '.'".'