CARNIVAL EXECUTIVE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16041, 6 October 1915, Page 4

CARNIVAL EXECUTIVE.

FURTHER SUBSCRIPTIONS.

Subscriptions j. amounting • to. £413 5s were* paid yesterday "to the treasurer •of the Queen Carnival. This amount included £200, the value set down for'2oo shares in the Dominion' Portland Cement Company, presented by Mr. S. J. Nathan. Particulars are as follows:— ' "*; ; '

v :-v>' : J 4 ■ - ""•'"- ""-•--* '? v - ■•.,:'£'.- a.rd. Sidney J. Nathan - (in shares) 200 0' 0 Arthur. H. Nathan, Ltd. '■ ... 100 s0 * 0 Archibald Clark ~ ■■*:-■'::. ... 100 0 0 Commercial . Travellers' Assn. '- 11 3? 0 Rev. W. Beatty > ... > ..; "220

; The contribution from the Commercial i Travellers'. Association comprised the fol--1 lowing subscriptions:—Rose Bros., £5; R. Muir, £2; J. Quaid, £1 Is; A. Mancon, £1 Is; —. Browning, £1 Is; and J. A. Reeve, £1. - . t > ~> s '.-',■ _' MR.. CARDSTON'S TOTJR. ■\"i WAIHI AND PAEROA MEETINGS. 'Mr. Owen Cardston,~official organiser for the Carnival Committee, whose services have been placed at the disposal of the Queen of the East Executive Committee for ten days, arrived at Paeroa on Mon- j day, when he addressed a huge meeting, enlisting assistance for the cause. He i also addressed a public meeting at Waihi on Monday night, outlining the various! schemes likely to raise funds. ,; Committees I were appointed to arrange 'preliminaries. ! Mr. Cardston left for Thames yesterday. j

PATRIOTIC . PAGEANT.

THE STORY OF THE WAR. The members of the Auckland Young Women's Christian Association, in company with kindred societies, are devoting all their energies to swell the patriotic funds, and . with this object in view have been busily employed for some - weeks "in making preparations for a ■ errand pageant outlining the story of the war, which will he staged to-morrow evening at the Town Hall. ■'- ■ £■] i' ' .. •"" '':-.'■ /r,..,•?•, The earlier part of the evening will he devoted ' to a representation by' means of Grecian statuary, of■■".* the ideals .of the Young Women's . Christian Association. There will be a march of girls in costume representing 22 countries in which the Y.W. C.A. is' now established. ;■' Each girl will carry a banner giving particulars of the number of branches of. the association in each country, and- the total membership. '/.,-";/)•'■;!:>"-'V '-J.' .""- '" ;i --:'.'. ■:'. '" The net proceeds of the entertainment will bo handed to the Patriotic Association -to be devoted to any, department of : its. activities which may be thought fit.