Y.W.C.A. BUILDING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15407, 16 September 1913, Page 8

Y.W.C.A. BUILDING.

SUCCESS OF CAMPAIGN.

OVER £8200 COLLECTED.

SPLENDID WORK OF TEAMS.

PUBLIC'S GENEROUS RESPONSE.

Hearty cheers greeted the announcement made at noon yesterday that the amount already collected in aid of the Y.W.C.A. building fund was £785 more than half the total amount required. The sum in hand was £8285 2s Id, the additional subscriptions amounting to £1779 10s lid from 1209 donors.

The- various teams handed in the following amounts :—Women's Company : Team A (Mrs. Bagnall), £23 ss, from 54 donors; Team B (Mrs. Dickenson), £39 8s 3d, from 49 donors; Team C (Mrs. Garrard), £70 16s, from 62 donors; Team D (Mrs. Hill), £54 14s Bd, from 93 donors: Team E (Mrs. Kidd), £18 2s, from 41 donors; Team F (Mrs. MeNair), £33 7s Id, from 41 donors; Team G (Miss Rishworth), £46 10s, from 55 donors; Team 1 (Mrs. Vugler), £21 10s, from 77 donors; Team J (Mrs. Wilson),£ll3 Is, from five donors; Team K (Mrs. Todd Smith), £79 lis 6d, from 42 donors; total, £500 5s 6d, from 519 donors. Young Women's Company: Mrs. Campbell's Team, £181 15s, from 80 donors; Miss Fowler, £15 18s 2d, from 105 donors; Miss Hardy, £14 10s Bd, from 114 donors; Miss Hopkins, £23 10s, from 40 donors; Miss Hutchinson, £13 6s 3d, from 52 donors; Miss Murdoch, £2 9s, from nine donors; Miss Murray, £13 15s, from five donors; Misses Melville and Bell, £50 lis od, from 108 donors; Miss Miller, £4« 14s lOd, from 70 donors; Miss Watts, £35 15s, from 34 donors; total, £398 from 666 donors. Citizen's Company, £881, from 24 donors. The committee has sent circulars to the country press asking for help in the campaign, and literature relating to the association's work has also been forwarded.

A subscription of £500 has been made to the fund by Mrs. J. L. Wilson, and one of £100 by Miss Angcan. Fifty pounds each have been given by Messrs. Winstone, Ltd., D. Goldie, and Thomas Miller, and £30 each by Mr. C. J. Parr, and Messrs A. S. Paterson and Co. Other subscriptions are as follows— Prof. and . Mrs. Dettmann, £20, Mr. Jas. C. Dickinson, £10, Mr. 0. Nicholson £10, the girls of the Colonial Ammunition Company £5 17s, Mrs. Edith Jamison, Mrs. Morpeth, Messrs Wright and Jaques, and F. and N. Winstone, £5 5s each; Mrs. Gallaher, Mrs. Selwyn Upton, Miss Woods, Mrs. G. C. Garlick, Miss E. M. Winstone, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Buttle, Dr. Bamford, Messrs. A. B. Stewart, Thos. Field, W. J. S. Prince, J. Peet, R. H. Dellow, J. W. Twigg, F. Rotherham and Robertson Bros., £5 each. An appeal was made on Saturday to residents in country districts whom the teams are unable to approach personally. The response has been most gratifying, for already a donation of £25 has been received from Mr. J. W. Ellis, Hamilton ; subscriptions of £1 -from Mr. Le Quesne (Hamilton), and Messrs. J. and M. Richards (Mackaytown), and of £1 Is from Mr. A. Nixon (Cambridge).