COAST DEFENCE TROOPS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16742, 24 December 1914, Page 8

COAST DEFENCE TROOPS.

CHRISTMAS DONATIONS. . Colonel C. J. Cooper wishes to acknowledge the following Christmas gifts for tho 180 men on coast defence duty at Lyttelton:—Hyman Marks Trust £lO, Christchurch Friends (per F. I. Cowlishaw) £35 3s 6d, Dr Newell £2 2s, Forbes, Ltd., £2, Mrs Wyld cake, Girls’ High School (per Miss Gibson) cake, “A Friend’’ 2s 6d, “H.J.H.” 2s 6d, Mrs F. H. Pyne ss, C. De Pas 1 lamb, G. L. Stead 1 lamb,. Mitchell Bros. 2 geese, Mrs Newton (Hill Top) 1 goose, Christchurch Public Library books, Sumner Public Library' books, Mrs P. Hume magazines, ladies of Sumner 5 pairs socks, T. Armstrong flags, Forbes, Ltd., 2 hams, Mrs Geary 1 ham, Arthur Morten case “ Brickbats,” Mrs Shand cake, Misses Geary (3) cake. Christmas puddings for the garrison and the families of the married men on duty hare been received from the following:—Canterbury Club, Dr Baker, Mesdames F. I. Cowlishaw, C. J. Cooper, T. Gibson, P. Lawrie, A. Moreton,- Conual, Owen, Flavell, Burberry, Arkley and Round, Popple, Salt, Weir, Nixon, Gimblett, Doolan, Pedler, Burnell, J. Anderson, E. C. Rawnsley, H. W. Bishop, jun., Ledger, L. W. Harley, Marriner, Dobbin, E. G. Rawnsley, Cecil Wood, Mills, Wiggins, • Ansley Bishop, Tait, A. D. Paterson, Cowlishaw, Barber and Snell, Misses Halligau, Wynn-Williams, Holdsworth. Pender, T. M’Dowell and Murley, Mesdames Acland (2), Pyne, Alpers, Rolleston, Thomas, Mathias, Fox, Stevenson, Thomson, Palmer, Godby, .Turnbull, T. Cowlishaw, Allan, Beals, W. A. Day, Humphreys, Williams, Cordner, Powrie and Harris.