HERALD PATRIOTIC FUND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15729, 2 October 1914, Page 6

HERALD PATRIOTIC FUND.

FURTHER SUBSCRIPTIONS. TOTAL OF £8490 IN HAND. Subscriptions amounting to £5 5s were paij into the Heeaid Patbiotic t'vsu yesterday, increasing the total amount to £9490 ss>»4<L Following are particulars of the amounts received yesterday: _ ' * . £• s. d. Devonport Jerry Co.'s Employees,, weekly contribution 315 0 Igabeua. Harrison 015 0 H-M.G ... ... ... '~". 015 0

CITIZENS' DONATIONS. FUND TOTALS £49,038. The only contribution to the Auckland Citizens' -Patriotic Fund yesterday was one of £2 2s, which was* forwarded by the employees of the Avondale Brick and Pottery Works. This contribution brings the total of the fund to £49.088 19s lOd. A meeting of the local Relief Committee, which has been appointed in connection with, the fund,- will be held this morning at eleven o'clock. -

CARGO -Hi GERMAN SHIPS. NEW ZEALAND CONSIGNMENTS. New Zealand cargo from the German steamers Pfalz, Lotheringen, Griefswald, and Thuringen, which have been detained fay the Commonwealth Government at Melbourne, will be taken on to Sydney by those vessels in charge of prize crews. The cargo will be transhipped at. Sydney to New Zealand ports, provided the "consignees take the action necessary to secure the forwarding of their consignments. Unless instructions are received to forward all through cargo to its destination, it will be bonded at Sydney at the consignees' risk and expense. Arrangements have been made for the steamers oi the Huddart-Parker Company to bring to New Zealand the cargo carried from New York by the German steamer Wildenfels. which has been detained at Sydney. The cargo for the Dominion amounts "to 3231 tons, of which 1070 tons are for Auckland, 1025 for Wellington, 882 tons for Lyttelton, and 254 tons for Dunedin. The Hirerina, which sails from Sydney on October 7, will bring the Auckland transhipments. The Victoria will leave Sydney on October 7 on a special trip with transhipments, going direct to Wellington, and then on to Lyttelton and Dunedin. The Ulimaroa, :to sail from Sydney on October 9 for I Wellington and Lyttelton, will also bring transhipments from the Wildenfek The secretary of the Chamber of Comreferring to the subject, says :— "We have been in communication ■ with the Wellington Chamber- of Commerce, with reference to the procedure to be adopted by consignees to obtain possession of goods in German vessels interned in various ports, and learn that the Attorney- ■ General advises that so far as the Commonwealth of Australia is concerned, it is ' necessary for consignees' to fpply to' their agents in Australia, forwarding "the jiecessary information, who in tain apply to the Prize Court for release of cargo. * The Commonwealth Government will raise no objection to the release on formal application being made. In the event of New Zealand consignees having no agent in Australian ports in which there are detained steamers.' they can apply direct to the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department at one or other o! the ports."