OUR WINTER CAMPAIGN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20596, 21 June 1930, Page 28 (Supplement)

OUR WINTER CAMPAIGN

OVER £2O SUBSCRIBED. Over • £2O in hand—is not that a splendid record for less than three weeks work for our Winter Campaign ? At first I thought I would set our objective at £SO, which seemed very ambitious, but our friends are helping so nobly that I believe we shall easily exceed that sum by the time our campaign closes in August! Three Manna House collecting cards have already been sent in with the money, these being from Noel _ Roe, Morrinsville, who also sont a donation of ten shillings from his uncle, Kathleen Whitaker, and Geoffrey Phillips. Geoffrey sont an extra four shillings, which he earned himself by selling; flowers. When you look at tho subscribers' list below, and see that over £lO has been sent in since our last list appeared, I am sure you will feel as proud and thankful to all those good friends as I do! I received a most grateful letter from Sister Esther last week, telling mo how much she appreciated the splendid spirit of helpfulness shown by our Brigade, and how it inspired and encouraged them all in their work. By tho way, I want to toll you something about the Manna House. Several letters this week were marked " Manor House Fund." That shows -the writers did not know the meaning of the name, although,' no doubt, most of you do. ■ Well, do you remember the story of tho Children of Israel and their wanderings in tho desert? When they were faced with starvation, God sent them manna to eat, and they wero saved. So the good people at the Manna House, obeying'tho Master's instruction to feed tho hungry, have used the name that has been remembered through thousands of years, as a 6ign of God's mercy and kindness toward His children.

Now I must tell you something of the progress of the Comfort Ship and tho Winter Comforts Fund. You will bo glad to know that Nurse has ordered a big load of wood and coal for her poor old fcick folk, also many comforts, with tho money you have sent for the Comforts Fund. " Give all the members of the Brigado our love and best thanks," sho said, " and tell them to ' Cany on! ' "

3 The first parcel. received at the St. 1 John Ambulance room was from our kind I friends, Aunts Emily and Mill- Do you a know, none of lis .havo, ever seen these i good a nuts, nor do wo know who they > are, although they have been /sending : money and comforts for several years. I i always think of them as the fairy godt mothets of our Brigade, and I-would like [ them to know how much wo all appreciate their generous help. The second parcel came from " Cam," • also a kind anonymous friend, who has stood by us in our work for the past four years. A large parcel, containing all kinds nf good things, camo from friends aft Whangarei, and a lovely lot of, nice now clothes wero contained in a parcel from Campbell, Laurel and Gordon 1 Patten, also loyal members of the Brigade. Other parcels were received from Olivo > and Al(*X Clark, Ngatca; -Kathleen and i Nan, To Kopua; an old [ friend, " J.5.K.," Whangarei; " Bar* | naigh," Pukekohe, " H.E.11.," Gisborne, - t and two specially nice, parcels of baby clothes for wee Baby Douglas, of whom , I wrote in my last article. 1 Our best thanks to you all for your kind and generous help! ; Manna House and Comforts Funds. Tho sum received for the second week of our campaign i 3 £lO 12s 6d by a curi- ! ous coincidence, tho exact sum subscribed tho first woek. Of this amount, £7 was for the Manna House Fund, aud £3 12s 6d for the Winter Comforts, Fund. Tho donations aro as follows: —

All cash donations to be sent to Miss Elsie Morton, N.Z. Herald, envelopes marked either " Manna Hou6e Fund," or " Winter Comforts Fund." Parcels to be sent direct to St. John Ambulance, Rutland Street, plainly marked " HERALD Comfort Ship. 1 ' No parcels to Herald Office..,. ~

Noel Roe, Morrinsvillo . » 1 0 0 R.J. * «w 1 0 0 Patetonga Sunday School »■» 0 14 6 Gerald Soustcr . .. *» 0 12 6 ISIolly Percy, To Puko 0 12 0 " Groat Sympathy for Down 0 and Outs " ... 0 10 Otahulju Methodist Sunshine Guild 0 10 0 Collected by Kathleen Whitaker 6 10 0 Collected by Geoffrey Philips 0 10 0 Aunts Emily and lilill (2 weeks' donations) .•. .. .J 0 10 0 A Friend in Waihi . < k • 0 10 0 E. and A. J. Johnston w « 0 8 0 To Kuiti Friends vv 0 5 6 Margaret Harvey . . n 0 5 0 " No Name," Morrinsville 0 5 0 R.H., Matakana . 0 5 0 " Someone who wants to help " 0 5 0 Molly Hardy 0 4 0 Geoffrey, Papatoetoe 0 4 0 Three Young Friends 0 3 6 Ollio and Alex Clark 0 3 0 Lloyd, Maureen and Ailsa Quinn 0 3 0 " Karori Boy," A.J., " Karangahake Mother," Gordon and Anthony Budd, Lydia. Dassler, 2s 6d each . 0 12 6 G.M., " Tho Syndicate," Molly and Esme, Ivy Harris, 2s oaeli . 0 3 0 " Sympathetic," Norman San0 son, Is each . . . . 0 2 . . £10 12 6 Previously acknowledged .. £10 12 6 Total to dato .. t. £21 5 0