CARNIVAL EXECUTIVE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16046, 12 October 1915, Page 4

CARNIVAL EXECUTIVE.

j YESTERDAY'S DONATIONS. ■ Subscriptions received yesterday added £873 9s Id to the fund of the carnival executive. This amount included the first return'of £20 12s 7d of the proceeds' from the military fete held in Parnell Park on 1 Saturday. ; i Following are particulars of the latest : subscriptions:— . | £ s. d. John Fleming 250 0 0 Fairbairn, Wright, and Co. ... 200 0 0 Sundry donations per Public Service Queen Committee ... 125 0 0 Auckland Bowling Club 71 8 0 Soldiers' Queen Fete, Parnell Park 20 12 7 E. L. McKinstry 20 0 0 ' Customs Department staff ... 18 17 0 Tuck and Booklass 10 10 0 ' Kodak, Australasia ... ... 10 0 0 Textile Bag and Sack Company 5 5 0 W. G. Smith 110 C. H. Cox.., 110 i I The total amount subscribed to the fund ■ by members of the Auckland Bowling . Club is now £1681 19s. The latest sub- > scriptions, amounting to £71 Bs, are as . follows:—-J. V. Dingle (second contribu- • tion), £47 ss; A. J. Parker, £5 ss; G. I B. Plummer, £5 5s : W. C. Littler. £3 3s ; W. Ledingham, £2 2s; W. C. Piggott £2 • 2a; W.G.S., H. McCrea. A. F.""Mackav, i T.E.P., J. Gilmour, and C.H.C., £1 is i .each > CANVASSING COMMITTEE. - NEXT WEEK'S CAMPAIGN. The house-to-house canvass for subscrip- . tions to the funis organised by the Canvassing Committee of the Patriotic and War Relief Association will be made next week. The chairman of the committee, Hon. George Fowlds, stated yesterday , that the campaign would be started next '. i Monday morning, and the committee de : sires that contributions should be ready for payment to the canvassers when they call, so that their efforts need not be delayed. Every authorised collector will be sup- , plied with official receipt books, md every , i subscriber is requested to see that he gets , i a proper receipt so as to make sure that no bogus collectors can take advantage of the public generosity. UKTFIOATION SCHEME. <- SUPPORTED IN TE KUITI. I [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] Te Awamutu, Monday. A conference was held here to-day between the Mayors of Hamilton, Cambridge, and Te Awamutu, to define the boundaries of the districts to be controlled by the three administering centres. A satisfactory arrangement was arrived at in regard to the area to be placed under the Te Awamutu Committee's control. A further conference is to be held at Hamilton between the Mayors of Cambridge, • Te Kuiti, and Hamilton, for the purpose r of finally defining the boundaries of their i respective districts. The Mayor of Auckland, Mr. J. H. ! Gunson, met the trustees of the Te Awamutu Patriotic Fund at a conference this ' afternoon, and a satisfactory settlement ; was arrived at. A largely-attended and enthusiastic public meeting was held this ' evening in the Town Hall, when the fol- : lowing resolution was unanimously car--1 ried : —" That this meeting thanks the [ Mayor of Auckland for his address reJ garding the proposal for the unification j of the various patriotic funds of the Auckl land Province, of which it cordially ap--1 proves, and that this meeting requests • the favourable consideration of the trustees of the local fund of the same."