CHORAL FESTIVAL FUNDS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3022, 17 August 1916, Page 2

CHORAL FESTIVAL FUNDS.

Mvs A. S. Lines Jones. President of the Ladies' Red Cross Sewing Guild, informed our representative to-day that she was very much surprised to learn, through yesterday's 'rt'i'Aii, that the Committee "in charge of tho Choral Festival lind decided to divert tho profits from < he Guild to another object. Right up to yesterday the public had been told tho funds wore to ro to the Sewing Guild, and numbers of people had bought tickets and helped in other ways on that understanding, and now the Festival Committee had changed their minds, i'ho Guild had not, been informed of any proposed alteration. In tho interests of the Guild it was only fair the public should bo mado aware of the diversion of the proceods.

No less a sum than £48,000 was paid last year in income-tax by the National Hank of New Zealand— C18,()00 in New Zealand and £21,----750 in London.

The Auckland Hospital Board has decided to make a further protest against, clause 3 of the amendments to the regulations under tho Nurses' Registration A<:l, which, .it -was stated, practically took out of (ho hands of a Hospital Boar<l the power to dispoiw... with the services of a aiursfc during her period of training, and also required that the appointment of a matron must be approved of by the registrar.

The protection afforded to the head by the iioav British Avar helment has had a Avonderful illustration in tho case of Captain J. Stewart., of tho Ist Auckland Infantry- Captain Stewart's helmet, dented and scarred by nine pieces of shrapnel, was brought to London last week by a brother officer.- Only ono piece- of .shrapnel penetrated to the head., inflicting a Avound, which, fortunately, is not of a serious nature. But for the helmet Captain Stewart must have lost his life.