RESPONSE IN TIE SOUTH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15687, 14 August 1914, Page 5

RESPONSE IN TIE SOUTH

FUND ACCUMULATING.

HELP FROM MANY CENTRES.

Messages from various parts of the

, country show that the Empire Defence Fund is accumulating with remarkable rapidity.

Napier's first instalment towards the | : patriotic- fund, amounting to £4000, has | been forwarded to the authorities. The Marlborough list is mounting up : rapidly, donations, including 1000 guineas •': from the -Marlborough Club, £100 from .- fie licensed - victuallers, and 100 guineas :■". from the Working Men's Club. • ; , At;a.public meeting in Hastings £2000 fas nromis'jd in the room besides numbers offers of horses, fodder, and equipment. . % fund Las now reached £3000. ./The, Civil servants of Greymouth have decided to contribute one day's pay to the *ar fund for those receiving up to £300 , ; per year and two days' pay for those reliving over that amount. ■At a meeting in Wanganui £1060 was inscribed in the building. 'Hie Feilding Jockey Club has donated .;.;&250,/;

The school-children of Fitzroy, TaranaW, have subscribed a sum sufficient to Purchase a horse.

CITIZENS' COMMITTEE.

WORK OF THE EXECUTIVE.

A meeting of the Executive Committee « the Citizens' Committee was held at

Boon yesterday. The Mayor, Mr. C. J. " arr , G.M.G., presided, and there were *° present-.-Messrs. Robert Burns, George Elliot, H. \V. Hudson, E. A. Craig, John Court, Archibald Clark, Stanley Milroy, and Charles Rhodes. The Bohemian Orchestra wrote offering *° give a concert in aid of the Patriotic 'Fluid;

Iho offer was accepted with thanks. V fr ', B> S. Abel, on behalf of the Boy 'Sf' organisation, wrote stating that lft o scouts would be glad to givo a demonstration for the benefit of the Patriots Fund. '

v ; The letter was referred to the BohefflP Orchestra to sco if it would arange w■have (ho demonstration included in its I Programme on the night of the concert, ■the committee resolved that an amount •honld -be drawn from the Patriotic Fund I£* the purpose of supplying 390 pairs of I **» for the. men at the Auckland forts, w>elj as socks and jerseyß. "' ■■.