LADY LIVERPOOL’S FUND

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8811, 14 August 1914, Page 9

LADY LIVERPOOL’S FUND

A STREAM OF GIFTS. Contributions Iboth of money, and' materials', in aid of the Countess of Liverpool's fund for the contingents,i continue to come to hand .in liberal measure. The following additional donations have been received Mrs Robertshaw, Kilbirme, £1; “Three little Miramar girls” 12s 6d; Mrs A. R. Hislop £2 10s; Mrs Enabling £2 2s; Rev. H. Van Staveren, £2 2s; A. MeL/, 10s; 'A,- T. M., 10a; M. M-, os; Mrs Bradbury (Wallace- ■ ville), 10s; Master T. Hull, ss. . jPringle, sdoz housewives * Mrs Marshall, 10 housewives; Mrs W. Cole, 3doz socks; Robert P. Hatch, 14 woollen shirts and 25yds woollen shirting! Mrs Hadfleld (per , Victoria League), 'SO caps; Mrs Ronayne (per Victoria ‘League), shirts, socks and singlets; A W. Moran and Son (N.Y. Novelty Co.), games for. both ships; Khandaljlah Sowing Bee. 50 housewives; laklies of fancy department, Kirkcaldio land bandages and safety pins; jH, Sample and C 0,,, one ibolt flannel; Mrs Fitohett, material for 100 housewives ; Mayoress of Miramar (Mrs iTownsend), S4doz caps; Mrs Bradbury, two scarves and pair mittens; Miss M.' Seaton, two ./pairs boxing gloves and twp card -games; Mr C. Editson, Cuba street, 24, cases of apples, to be divided between both ship's. ’ ' Donations of fruit; cakes, books and games were taken out to the troopships yesterday by launch. . -. Among other contributions—individual or collected—are .the following: — Wellington-Central Mission (per Rev. Knowles Smith), £lO (first contribution); "Mr ‘Si A. R. Hair, HuntorVille,‘ £4 6s Id; Mrs J. B.* A’Deane,Ashoott, £25 (to be spent on Balaclava caps and flannel shirting); . ladies of Levin (per Mrs Gardener, Mayoress), £SO; ladies of Ross (per Mrs Gnmmond. Mayoress), £35, and' more to follow; ladies of Gamaru ■ (per Mrs Firth, Mayoress), £lO7 16s Gd; Mr Leonard -Stowe,. £5;. Myers, parcel of warm clothing. ;, In a number of cases messages have been received, stating that money is being collected instead ofclothing ; telegrams to that effect have boon forwarded by Mrs Limberick. Mayoress of Hastings; Mrs B. C. Robbins. Mayoress of Tauranga; Mrs Simmons, Mayoress -of Taumarunui; Mrs . Goldfinch, • Mayoress of Ohakuae;' and the •Mayoress of Tapamii.*.. • From Waitara. comes word that the women of Waitara, and ©very wageearner and adult, has,.undertaken to pay sixpence a week , tilt the close of the war. ’ . ?-,■ - ■■■ ■ Mrs Vigor, Brdwn, Mayoress of. hapier; telegraphs that, the desire ,in that town is to fit out the 200 Napier m'en who are going to the front, 'but that any ; surplus: articles will bo forwarded. to the Countess of Liverpool •Fund.