THE EUROPEAN WAR.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 232, 22 September 1914, Page 3

THE EUROPEAN WAR.

ukekohe Patriotic Fund. OVER THE THOUSAND POUNDS. The iSIOOO mark is passed. Total collections Sow £lOlB 14s 4d. 2. West £2l 1 '2s, Sports Club £l2 Mrs Lucas £l, Mrs Pellow 10s, s McSheen 4s 6d.

Lady Liverpool Fund. Urs Jacob Fisher li pairs sox, 88 Barter a cap, Miss E. Blake a ), Mrs Baxter a cap, Mrs J. )oey li pairs sox. fc. H. Hyde, secretary of the ioiilton equipment fund of the 4th d 16th Waikato companies, has ltten thanking the Pukekohe Comttee of the Lady Liverpool Fund ' their prompt and liberal response sending £5 10s towards the imilton fund.

H Sister Esther's Work. ■HELP FROM PUKEKOHE. weeks past Miss Townson, of has been taking a keen in the work of Sister Esther, Auckland. The Sister is doing service amongst the poor and Stressed of the Queen City—work does not come under the of the established benevolent Hcieties. Hln a letter to Mr Townson, Colonel Hr. B. White, who is associated Hith the committee which operates Hitli Sister Esther, writes : HHer work is almost exclusively Hith the women and childHn and she finds just now a very Hrge amount of distress. The Hster rnafbs a point of personally Hiquiring into every case, and we Hel we can safely say that only deHrving cases are helped. I underBand that Miss Townson mentioned B the Sister that probably the PukeB)he people might assist by gifts of Brm produce. If this were done it Bould be acceptable. . . During Bat season we received many gifts of Btatoes, pumpkins and turnips from Bir country sympathisers which Materially assisted the Sister in her ■ork." ■ Since the Sister Esther movement las taken up in Pukekohe, Miss Bownson has been sending a weekly Bntribution of vegetables and clothBg. Amongst the voluntary conBibutors so far are Mesdames Mills, ■tembridge, Neil, Townson, Mcßae, Bong, Grigor, Perkins, Webster and Br Hubbard. Those who are interesting themselves in the movement B Pukekohe hope to have the cooperation of a large number of producers who will give regular donations of produce and thus enable a Supply to go forward at stated dates. I At yesterday's meeting of the f ukekohe Patriotic Committee, Mr ■townson brought this matter forward and the letters we have quoted above were read. Mr Townson Explained that his daughter was Baking a personal interest in three amilies in which there were 23 hildren who had no breadwinners. L great number had been put out of heir homes by the landlords and in ome of the places now occupied the iupboards were empty. About 40 :asos of destitution were said to lave been directly caused by breadwinners going to the war. They tad been sending a sack of pumpkins, turnips, etc., together with :lothing to Auckland every week, md were anxious to keep the supply up. The committee, while strongly sympathising with the movement, considered they had no authority to use the patriotic monoy in the direction suggested. To overcome this difficulty, Mr Eames moved, and Mr Phillipps seconded, That a meeting of subscribers to the patriotic fund be convened with a view to asking their authority for tho committee to dispose at their discretion of whatever monoy over the £ 1000 aimed at is raised, for war or relief purposes.— This was carried unanimously.

Mauku. A SPLENDID GIFT. One of tho first to offer tho use of his waggon and hai joss when the request for such came through to the Farmers' Union branch secretary Avas Mr W. H. B. Firth. This waggon was practically new as was tho harness, the lot costing over £SO. It now transpires that Mr Firth has givon the waggon and harness as his donation towards the patriotic fund. This generous donation considerably increases the funds supplied from Mauku. The waggon has now, I believe, received its coats of armygrey paint and has been put aboard one of the transport steamers. The next we hope to hear of it is that it has landed safely and is en route for Berlin. Mr Firth has ordered another waggon for himself, so the donation so willingly given will mean the expenditure of at least £IOO to him.

PROMOTED TO SERGEANT. On Sunday Mr Gordon Hovey was a visitor to Pukekohe. He left again to rejoin his colours in Auckland on Sunday evening. Upon becoming associated with the Third Auckland squadron, commanded by Major S. C. Schofield, Hovey was attached as a private in No. 2 troop under Lieut. Haeata. Afterwards, however, Mr Hovey was transferred to the headquarters staff, and last week he was promoted to the rank of sergeant. Good luck to Sergeant Hovey.