GENEROUS RESPONSE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15660, 14 July 1914, Page 8

GENEROUS RESPONSE.

REMOERA CHILDREN'S HOME.

CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS.

SUM OF £1649 SECURED.

Tins campaign which has been conducted ' durin- the past week to raise the sum of £1500 required to open the new building for the Remuera Children's Homo at ; Manurowa free from debt was brought to j a close last evening. The sum of £1649 | was secured, and subscribers and collecj tore were entertained at a social gathering j in the Y.M.C.A. buildings. Mr. Todd Smith, who was chairman of the Collectors' Committee/ in presenting the figures for the various teams, expressed the deep pleasure of his committee ! at tho satisfactory result, and tendered its ; thanks to tho captains and individual ! members of tho teams; to those who had , lent motor-cars; and most of all to those ; who had subscribed so willingly and eni abled the new homo to be opened free of debt. Ho announced also that practically ; the whole of tho furniture and kitchen : utensils for the home had been donated, : so there would have to be no expenditure I in that direction. Tho amount previously reported as hav- . ing been collected was £1301, and an ; additional £348 was obtained by teams j led by tho following :—Mrs. F. W. Gaze, i *62; Mrs. Hay, £48; Mre. Garlick, £61; jjtev. S. Jenkin, |29; Mrs. J. C. Spedding, £23; Mrs. Long, £23; Mrs. Woolj ley, £18 Mrs. Strainton, £18 Mrs. J. lings, £14; Mrs. T. Cranch, £11; Mrs. ! Prangnell, £10; Miss Davis, £10; Pastor ; Morris, £8; Miss Spcdding, Whangarei, £4; Miss Baldock, £4; Miss Graham, i£4 Mrs. W. L. Salter, Birkdale, £3; I Mount Eden Baptist Church, £25; making ja total of £1649. the teams which, collected the three uighost amounts were j led by Mrs. Gaze, £301; Mrs. Garlick, Aire. J. C. Spedding, £212; and j Mre. Long, £212. I During the evening tho Rev H. Knowles ! Kempton gave a stirring address, and Miss Spedding, who, before the campaign, toured tho Dominion and collected nearly £1300, gave some humorous anecdotes of her experiences in various places. Songs were contributed by Mrs. Beveridge, and ' a recitation by Mr. Le Roy. Mr. G. C. ! Garlick, chairman of the Building and ' Finance Committee, read nn interesting letter from Mr. C. R. Munro, headmaster i of the Remuera district school, stating that ; the children of that school had donated I £7 towards the purchase of a library for ; tho new children's home, and that the ' girls of Standards V. and VI. would cover the books. The pupils of the school, he said, had derived great pleasure from giving their mites to such a worthy object, and in practically every case the subscription came from their own pocket-money and not from the pockets of their parents. Mr. Garlick, on behalf of the members of the board of the Remuera Children's Home, and of the captains of teams and I collectors, then presented Mr. and Mrs. , Todd Smith with a handsomely-bound volume suitably inscribed, as a mark of appreciation of the recipients' services during the campaign. The board expects to house the children, in the home at the end of next month, and the official opening will take place in October.