CANTERBURY WAR FUND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12996, 11 December 1902, Page 5

CANTERBURY WAR FUND.

THE WINDING UP. The Canterbury War Fund, which was established three yeans ago for the equipment of a Canterbury Contingent for South Africa, was yesterday wound, up by the instructions of the executive committee appointed to deal with it. The work done by the executive since its inception is now a matter-of history, but history of such recent making that it is probably thoroughly familiar to the people of Canterbury. It is needless to recapitulate the story of how the Third Contingent, the famous Rough Riders, were equipped and. sent forth by public subscription from the people of Canterbury, nor of the help given by the executive to the later Contingents, nor of the erection in the Cathedral of. a memorial to the men who gave their lives for their country. All this was done before the public eye, and the public interest was so keen that it will not soon be forgotten. After deailing with a sum exceeding £15,000, the executive at length found itself with a balance in hand of £8 17.3 7d. How to devote this balance it was for some time uncertain, but recently it was resolved that the money fJhould be 'handed to the Jubilee Memorial Fund, a fund whoso objects dncludo the provision of a memorial to Canterbury men who fell in South Africa. Thus the balance of the War Fund will act be diverted' from its proper purposes. The payment of the amount to the Memorial Committee was made this afternoon by the Secretary of the War Fund Committee,' Mr A. H. Adley. 5