EARTHQUAKE RELIEF.
CITY COUNCIL DONATION,
AMOUNT RAISED TO £525.
TOTAL OF £12,703 NOW IN FUND
The. Auckland City Council's donation to thu earthquake relief funds was raised to £525 last evening, when a suggestion by the Mayor, Mr. G. Baildon, that £420 should be added to the original contribution of £lO5 was agreed to. The Mayor said that when ho was in Wellington attending u meeting of the Central Relief Committee ho became impressed with the necessity for contributing to the funds as freely as possible. Auckland had really nia'de a name for itself owing to the manner in which the peoplo had responded to the appeal for funds. When the council had voted £lO5 if. was to give tho fund a start, and he thought thai it was justified in giving £525.
A .suggestion by Mr. J. P. I.undon that (ho donation should be £IOSO failed to find any support. 1 Subscriptions received yesterday, plus the added donation from the council, brought the total in the Mayor's fund to £12,703 16s 6d. Yesterday's donations were:—-F. D. Woodroffo and Company, Ltd., £lO 10s; postal messengers' staff, chief post office, Auckland, £2 2s; A.M.P., £2.
THE HERALD FUND
TOTAL NOW OVER £9500. »THANKFUL'S" TEN SHILLINGS. The total in the Herald end Weekly News fund for tho relief of distress occasioned by the earthquake passed the £9500 mark yesterday, the sum of £l9 received bringing the list up to £9517. A donation of ten shillings from "Thankful,'' was accompanied by a note explaining tha» the money was "part of the first wages I have earned for 15 months." Further subscriptions will be received at the Herald oilice and acknowledged in these columns. Tho list to date is as follows £ s. d. Previously acknov.-ledsjed . . 9458 15 5 Proceeds Railway Refreshment Girls' Dance, Mercer 6 0 0 M.E.L. 5 0 0 Mercer Railway Staff . . . 410 0 Helper 110 Anonymous 10 0 Thankful 10 0 Sympathiser 10 0 Tabernacle Girls' Bible Class A 6 0 J.W., Port Albert . . . . 5 0 Total to date . . . . £9517 17 5
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20323, 2 August 1929, Page 11
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341EARTHQUAKE RELIEF. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20323, 2 August 1929, Page 11
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