THE GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND RELIEF FUND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16239, 24 November 1914, Page 5

THE GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND RELIEF FUND.

5 THE OTAGO DAILY TIMES LIST. Previously acknowledged £545 3 6 Staff of D.I.G. warehouse and workrooms (periodical contribution) 8 0 0 Middlemarch Women's Patriotio Committee 2 10 0 "Thistle" 0 5 0 Joseph Evans, sen., St. Kilda 0 3 9 •Total _ ... _. £556 2 S BELGIAN RELIEF FUND. THE OTAGO DAILY TIMES LIST. Previously acknowledged £2250 14 4 The Overseas Club (per the Belgian Consul) 80 0 0 Proceeds of social organised by spinsters of Teviot (per Miss A. Burton) ... 3710 3 Mrs Henderson, Roslyn ... ... 710 0 Mrs H. Dunn _. ... 5 0 0 Mrs Wardell _ ... ... 50 0 Collected in Teviot (per Miss A. Burton) —H. Wetherall 20s, M. Elliott 10s, A. H. Williamson 1%, Miss Kirkwoodss 2 15 0 Middlemarch Women's Patriotio Committee 210 0 "Antif" 10 0 Mrs J. Orr, Burnside 10 0 Lottie Davies, Mornington ... 010 0 Broad Bay Sunday School ... 010 '0 "J. E." Abbotsford 0 5 0 " Thistle" 0 5 0 Joseph Evans, sen., St. Kilda 0 3 9 Total £2394 13 4 Included in our acknowledgements this morning is the sum of £80 contributed by the Overseas Club, which desires to intimate that £60 of this sum is contributed by the school children of Otago and is part of a fund inaugurated by the Dunedin branch of the Overseas Club, called The Otago School Children's Christmas Box Fund for Belgian children. Some sohools have still to respond and will doubtless do so, seeing the cables report that starvation is ripe among tho children of Belgium.

BRITISH AND BELGIAN CHRISTMAS

BOX FUND. The following additional subscription to the above fund has been received: —Pupils of Hooper's Inlet School, 7s 3d.

A subscription of 10s from the Dunrobia Sohool for the above fund was inadvertently credited to the Duntroon Sohool.

The Public Appeal Committee of the Patriotic and General Welfare Association is conducting an art union, with an unlimited number of members at sixpence each, for the disposal of an autotype from an original drawing of the Town Hall, Brussels, by John Coney, a famous etcher and engraver who lived a century ago. The autotype is at present on view in Stark and Co.'s window, but it will be transferred to the refreshment marquee •at the Show grounds on Thursday, when the members of the Lady Liverpool Committee, havß undertaken the sale of tickets. There aro no working expenses in connection with the art union, of which the entire proceeds will be devoted, to the Belgian Relief Fund.

"Patriotic Sympathiser" has posted to us a small sivpply of tobacco for the Expeditionary Force. We have forwarded it to the right quarter.

The White Horse since the beginning of time has been the sign of highest standard of excellence. The Ancients worshipped the White Hor&e. The Norse landed in Britain with White Horse Standard. The Great Napoleon and many others notable in history rode a White Horse. Mackie and Co. Distillers Ltd. ship the "WHITE HORSE " —the hisrheßt standard of excellence and age in Whisky. —12 — Godalming has supplied a recruit to Lord Kitchener's army who bears the name, of Julius Cffisar.