EARTHQUAKE RELIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20867, 8 May 1931, Page 12

EARTHQUAKE RELIEF.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND FUND. AUCKLAND'S READY RESPONSE. The appeal made by Archbishop Averill for help on behalf of tho Waiapu diocese as the outcome of flic Hawke's Bay earthquake has met with a gratifying response considering tho present financial stringency. Tho substantial sum of £I7OO has so far been received. There is a pressing need for the immediate erection of some building of a more or less temporary character in Napier to serve as a church for the next few years. Another urgent need is the provision of stipends for clergy. Auckland church people are helping to supply these urgent needs. .I'or example, the archbishop, with the cordial approval of standing committee, has arranged for tho stipend of the Rev. Mr. Zimmerman, curate of St. Augustine's, Napier, to bo paid for 12 months by the Auckland diocese from the funds received in answer to the appeal. St. Augustine's parish could n<>t possibly raise the stipend in tho present circumstances and yet it is at such times as this that living agents are most urgently required. At a conservative estimate the financial loss sustained by the Waiapu diocese through the earthquake is at least £IOO.OOO. Kurt her donations are urgently required.

THE HERALD FUND. FURTHER DONATIONS RECEIVED. The following additional contributions to the New Zealand H; and Auckland Weekly News earthquake relief fund liavo been receivedX' s. d. Amount previously acknowledged 16,041 J.'i 8 Wtiimnntaku Athletic Mparts Club 6 0 0 \Yui|)ti Ileliet Committee (further <|onntion) 0 2 0 C. Strickland. Esq.. Calcutta Jlldia (late Captain, Medical Corpsl - r > 0 0 Tuakau Do;; Trial Club, Ow:iv hero .. .. .. ... 5 0 0 •T.M.. Turua, Women'." Institute. L.l''., pupils of To Atatu School, JCI each; Native School, Orunnui, 13s tod. Amount received date, ,1'15.0G8 lo? (id.

SUPPORT PROM GOLFERS. r.rrr of ncNDiiKD i-ucNns. The soiietarv of the New Zealand Golf Association. >i»•. (J. 0. Sutton, reportc-rl :it tho monthly meeting of tlio council that, a very large manlier of elubs wore opening subscription lists for the assistance of clubs which had suffered in the earthquake area, and that nearly 100 per cent, of tho replies received had been favourable to the association voting up to £IOO fr6m its general funds toward the earthquake relief. It. was decided to ask the captains of the Napier, Hastings and Park vale Clubs if they would act, as a committee to advise the association regarding the losses suffered by clubs as a result of the earthquake. Tho council was pleased to receive a letter from thi: Hastings Golf Club indicating that it had definitely decided to hold its annual io-urnamenl as usual this year on June 3. 4. 5 and 6, and the council expressed the hope that in the circumstances outside golfers would give solid support to the tournament.