SOLDIERS' TOBACCO AND COMFORT FUND
Owing- to the various patriotic collections that have taken place recently, the regular collections for the above fund have been allowed to lapse- However, the country collections have been keeping up fairly well, and it is now up to the townspeople to make up for their past deficiencies next Saturday, when the lady collectors will make their regular house-to-house collections, and, as Chaplain Taylor recently mentioned to tlie local Secretary and Treasurer, Mr Joseph McLean, the tobacco and cigarettes sent from the West Coast district through the Overseas Club have been the best received at the Front, comprising as they do
Three Castles cigarettes, Havelock and Capstan tobacco. He stated that the smokes were more appreciated than anything elseThe Treasurer has now been able to forward a further £IOO, but as the fund is now practically depleted it is up to. those that cannot go to at least furnish smokes for the boys who are undergoing such strenuous work in the firing line. The following is a statement of the fund to date:— Amounts already acknow. lodged ..1 £847 2 8 Grey month— Result of children's bazaar held by Misses Laing and Panckhurst 22 Railway Goods Shed box ... 117 7 Otira— Tunnel workers per W. Linklater 1 10 0 Ahaura District— Per Mrs Rickards ... ... 1 10 0 Moana District — Per Messrs Penhalluriack and and Gorman 6 10 Rlaketown School, per Miss Keddell 12 0 Ahaura raffle, per Mrs Rickards 5 10 0 Barrytown. per Messrs Rvall Bros. ' * ... 12 7 Greyrnouth—Royal Hotel, per Mrs Webb and Miss Borlase 14 0 Fogarty arid Williams’ box 6 4 Holder and Sou’s box ... 14 6 Fresh Food and Ice Co’s box 14 9 £869 18 2 DISBURSEMENTS. £ s. d.
By amounts remitted to 'Miss Mackenzie for West Coast soldiers in London Hospitals 50 0 3 By amounts remitted to Lieut. Col. Mabin for West Coasters in Malta Hospitals ... 10 0 0 By amount remitted to LieutCol. Austin for comforts for West Coasters in France 35 0 0 By amount collected Navy Dependents’ Fund and handed over to Grey Patriotic Committee 171 12 0 By amount remitted to Overseas Club for remittances and tobacco and cigarettes for West Coasters ... 500 0 0 £866 12 0 Balance in hand ... £3 6 2
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 May 1917, Page 7
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