SHACKLETON'S CHARITIES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10240, 1 September 1909, Page 4

SHACKLETON'S CHARITIES.

PROCEEDS OF LECTURES. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received September 1, at 11.5 a.m. Sydney, September 1. The directors of the Hospital Satinday Fund have received a letter from Lieutenant Shackleton mentioning that the result of his lectures in Australia and New Zealand, about £2200, had been handed over to the various cliai-i----table institutions there. He had decided to devote the whole of the proceeds of his lectures there to charities as a token of his gratitude for the substantial aid offered the expedition by the Commonwealth and New Zealand Governments.