STREET COLLECTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15686, 13 August 1914, Page 7

STREET COLLECTION.

? TO-DAY'S CAMPAIGN. j: ; : CITY AXD SUBURBS. i ■ ■ [ LARGE BAND OF HELPERS. I -The street collection on behalf of the ! * -fund inaugurated by the Mayoress takes | J place to-day. Arrangements were- com- ,„, pleted yesterday. A number of ladies -. have willingly -offered to assist, and each ■••■,_ of those who are in charge of stations will : have assistants who will collect for a , -period of two hours. Mcsdames Rattray •and Nelson are the- principal organisers, [ v Mil-Mr.' Messer, assistant city treasurer, ~- - .will act as treasurer of the fund. ; Arrangements have been ma<lo to in- ;: ciltdo the suburban districts in the collec- '■'■: tion. : The money will bo received from ■ ;' the ladies by Mr. Messer, and all collectors are warned not to hand their boxes l j;. to anyone else. Mr. Messer will take the ■' nionev to the Town Hall, where Mr. Wilv ''am Rattray, secretary of the St. John ';■: ; ;Ambulance Association, will count it and Bend it lo tho bank. |»end connection with the collections which In connection with the collections which I : :' : "« being taken up at North Shore it has 1 r,^'arranged that the. moneys received .there will bo devoted to the' fund pro- ' * tooted by the Mayoress of Auckland. Consequently, to-day's collection under tho i y supervision of Me.sdames Rattray and ; , : Nelson will not includo the North Shore ■ ; : ..; district. : ;' At a meeting of the collectors. Mrs. Rat- , '-urged that thsy should see that not . ; ; more than one, visit was paid to each of ,; j;: .the warehouses during tho day. The «,;;.: ladies will to provided with tea by Smith "•* Caughey, Ltd., Messrs. Kent and .'.J;:-: *!)«< Newmarket, and at places in the i/'i'-y.-. vicinity °£ other stations, arrangements having been made accordingly. Tho offer °' " The Dandies" to assist in the cam- ■ paigtt has been accepted. Altogether there *lU be a force of over 200 collectors'at /work. ; j.' - A committee has been formed at Otahuhu ■ ..J««w the authority of the Mayor, Mr. A. ' £ lar 8«s, to collect money for the Patriotic - Un( l- Twenty Lidice have been appointed ■ t0 collect in Otahuhu to-day. ■ " ■ Lad.es in Mount Eden, Newmarket, ~ m Mount Albert have decided to take ■P collections in their respective districts. ?v .^to-day,-:• WmM-'- ■ • " "* • $&£lgSP* :i - - -'•■''• Wmfe;- -■-■ ■ •'..■■■■'■