HERALD HOSPITAL SHIP FUND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15944, 15 June 1915, Page 8

HERALD HOSPITAL SHIP FUND.

LIST OF CONTRIBUTIONS.

TOTAL OF £10,511. RECEIVED.

The Herald Hospital Ship and Wounded Soldiers' Relief Fund was augmented yes terday by a total of £183 2s Bd. The fund now amounts to £10,511 14s.

Amounts of one shilling and upwards may be sent by post to the Herald, Auckland, or may bo paid in at the Herald Office, Queen Street, Auckland, where a list has been placed. The following is the list of the latest donations:—

Tbe To Kopuru and Tatararikl collection was made up as follows :—Te Kopuru residents, £26 Os 6d; Tatarariki branch of the Farmers' Union, £11 18s 6'd; Te Kopuru mill employees, £10 6s 6d; Tatarariki residents, £8 13s j Northern Wairoa Lodge 56, 1.0.0. F., £5. The amount collected by the Mangapeehi bushmen was made us as follows:—G. Keatings and J. Galbraith. £1 each; A. Busby, R.J. FoTd, H.Ford. G. Walters,A. Walters, H. Anderson, L. Harris, F. Anderson, Albon Hitchens, G. Norman, I. Garriock, F. Wikstrora, Porora, and H. Billings. 10s each; W. Dempsey, M. Dempsey, H. Harrison, H. Rowlands' W. Patton, ami H. Livingstone, 6s each.

THE MAYOR'S FUND.

FURTHER DONATIONS.

TOTAL TO DATE, £16,175.

The Mayor's fund for the equipment of the hospital ship and 'the relief of wounded soldiers is mounting up steadily. The total now stands at £16,175 7a Bd, the latest contributions being as follow :—

£ s d Devonport Ladies 323 12 5 Auckland Commercial Travellers

and Warehousemen's Associ-

ation, first instalment ... 150 0 0 St. Sepulchre's Boy Scouta' street collection ... ... 23 6 0 Residents of Ohaeawai ... ... 21 0 3

Amateur Sports Club 20 0 0 Grey Lynn Druids' benefit social 12 14 6 Manunui Women's Patriotic

League 9 0 0 Auckland branch, "The Order of the Star in the East," second contribution 8 0 0 Misses E. N. and E. S. Bull ... 5 0 0

The Ohaeawai subscriptions are as follow :—A. C. Hingston, £5 ss; Edgar Carryer and G. Kerr, '£2 2s each; J. H. Paulger, W. W. Baxter, and Alf. R. Wigmoro, £1 Is each; Vincent; May, £1; G. Harrison, A. R. Neilson, W. T. Sigley, J. Stanton, and W. Stanton, 10s od each J. Melrose and C. W. Collett, 10s each; T. G., Fitzgerald, H. Brown, H. A. Heslop, C. Nicholson, Percy Rameka, P. Atkinson, W. J. King, W. Baldwin, Mrs. Baldwin, B. Woods, F. Neilson, and A. J. M. Simson, 5s each; G. P. Serbin, A. Abach, J. Woods, B. Berry, R. Clarke, and J- Rankin, 2s 6d each.

WAR FUND SUGGESTED.

PROPORTIONAL TAXATION SYSTEM.

An entertainment was given at Mangapeehi last week, in aid of the Hospital Ship and Wounded Soldiers' Relief Fund. At the close -the following resolution was carried :— That whke thiß ' meeting of supporters of the Hospital Ship Fund is glad to help in this humane work, its members are of opinion that benevolent efforts on the part of tho public only succeed in touching tho fringe of the necessities of the times, and that these demand a special and heavy increase of the public exchequer to meet the whole cost of our share in the war. The utmost that this country can do for its expeditionary force will not be too much, and, therefore, the authorities are urged to take immediate action to establish a war fund, that will meet tho whole cost of equipment and maintenance of our forces, and will permit of equitable payment to the men who volunteer; a generous annuity to those who' return disabled and to' the dependents of those who fall; and, that this fund can best be raised by a system of proportional taxation under which each will pay according to his ability."

STATIONARY HOSPITAL.

THANKS FROM THE COMMANDER.

The full equipment of No. 2 Stationary Hospital was despatched to Wellington last week, and the following letter of thanks to the committees who worked so keenly to get everything ready in time lias been sent out by Lieutenant-Colonel Parkes:—" Your list of equipment received to-day has aroused our admiration, for it is a magnificent response to the appeal for tho Stationary Hospital. The Defenco Department is highly delighted, and has cabled to the War Office a list of the equipment. I need hardly say how very grateful the hospital staff is, for your splenajd effort and the value of such ft gift- is at present difficult to estimate, fho Stationary Hospital leaves an Saturday afternoon, and,, as officer commanding, I can only express the hope that the •work we are about to undertake will be worthy of the help afforded to us by the ladies of Auckland."

The Executive Committee desire to thank the following for valuable help in packing and gifts of hampers:—Messrs. Sargood Son, and Ewen, Messrs. Thompson and flinders, Messrs. Macky, Logan, . and Caldwell, and Mr. Packman. The workmen { , th Blind Institute gave £2 10s to this fund.

£ s. d. To Kopuru and Tatarariki collection (as per list) 61 12 o Proceeds of entertainment at • Mangapeehi 11 12 0 Social afternoon, Mount Eden ladies, per Mrs. David Zuntle 16 6 3 Sale of goods by ladies on Onehunga bowling green 11 16 3 Mr. wid Mrs. C J.E. 10 10 0 Mangapeehi bushmen (as per list) '..'. IJW 0 R.N.H S 0 0 ■ Employees Ihimgia station, Waipiro Bay 4 10 0 Gerald Bull, Ngaruawahia ...330 Employees of E. C. Browne and Co., Ltd 3J0 Ellerslie racecourse staff ... 3 O u Proceeds hospital ship tea, Miss Gardener, New Lynn 2 0 o B. A. Smith, Ngaruawahia (per box), first instalment 2 6 6 John Taylor, Kaipara Plata ... 2 2 0 N i & v Porritt and Mueller ... ... 2 2 0 T. and W. Parkinson, Te Rauamoa „ x n GC-M 200 U.L/.M • i -ic n Gamblers' Game , - 1 15 0 Per A. Tooman and Co., Ltd. (A Friend, Papatoetoe, two cases apples, £1 Mrs. Kerr, one calf, 12s 6d) ... ... 1 J2 6 Pukekohe East Sunday-school 1 10 0 Collected at Hinuera post office 16 6 Jack Makovina '} J X E.P., No. 25 1 1 0 D. M. Dunningham 1 in C. F. Jouuing ( ... 110 Blanche Mueller, from her little friends instead of presents on her seventh birthday 110 E.G. Tirau 1 0 0 Ongarue J 0 0 Win. Alcock, Great Barrier... 10 0 Takapuna Croquet Glub, third weekly contribution 10 0 Mrs. Goodwin 10 0 Another Friend 10 0 Old Maid ... ... .» 10 0 36, Mount Pleasant Road ... 0 10 6 E. C. Clark 0 10 6 AH. Tilly 0 10 6 H.J.G., Okahukura 0 5 0 I.H.F 0 5 0 A Mother . ... 0 5 0 Shoo Shoo 0 2 6 Woodford 0 2' 6