THE BELGIAN FUND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15884, 3 April 1915, Page 9

THE BELGIAN FUND.

APPEAL FOR £10,000.

PROVINCIAL CAMPAIGN.

FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS.

SUM OF £48,519 RECEIVED.

The campaign to raise £10,000 for the Belgian Fund, in order to secure the Lindauer collection of Maori paintings lor the City of Auckland, is being inaugurated to-day by the publication with the daily newspapers of an appeal by the Acting-Consul for Belgium. Mr. H. E. Partridge has offered to present this valuable collection, which is estimated to be worth at least £25,000, to the city, on the solo condition that tho people of the province subsciibe £10,000 to the Belgian fund.

Already a considerable sum has been piomiseu to inaugurate this special fund, and the Inst list, of douatiuns will be published in the Herald on Tuesday, J'lio executive of the Belgian Fund is at present devoting its efforts to the fulfilment of Mr- Partridge's condition, and measures have been taken which, it is hoped, will secure the co-operation of the whole province and the early completion of tho fund.

Subscriptions are still being received towards the ordinary fund for the relief of distress In Belgium, many of tho amounts which are now being received being periodical contributions. The amount subscribed is now approaching £50,000, the actual amount received being £-.8,519 19s Id. Following is a list of the furtiicr contributions :—

Further contribution from residents of Te Aroha, per Te Aroha News, £18 8s 8d; Mrs. J. Campbell, £10 10s; Residents of Omanawa Falls, Tauranga, £7 2s; proceeds sale of mare and rug, presented by W. S. Wheeler, £5 7s 6d; Miss Campbell, £5 ss; proceeds concert given by Maoris at Taupo, £5; F.W.H., £5; mother and daughter, £4; Mrs. Harriet Johnson (monthly), £4; Miss Bent, (monthly), £3 ;C. A. Henderson (monthly), £3 ; proceeds sale of pony, presented by 11. Leslie, £2 18s 6d ; collected at Belgian boys' contortion exhibition at Awanui, £2 14s; Misses I. and A. Simcock, £2 10s; W. Alexandra, £2 2s; proceeds sale of lettuce at Brents's Bathgate House, £2; proceeds of dance at Aka Aka, £2 ; Miss Muir. £2; To Aroha, £2; Roto-o-rangi United Sunday-school (monthly), £1 17s; members and employees New Zealand Saddlery Company, Ltd. (22nd contribution, £1 13s; Jackson and Russell (we»kly), £1 13s; residents of Buckland, further contribution, £1 6s; Sympathiser, £1 4«; proceeds social held at Waitekauri, per Miss Margaret Gordon, £l 10s; J.G., £1 Is ; Mrs. O. A. M. Pritt /second contribution). £1 Is; Mrs. M. Hvons, Badger Bros, W.L., J. Foster and family, Frontiersmen, Thanksoffering, £1 en :h.