RED CROSS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 586, 27 December 1915, Page 4

RED CROSS.

SALES DEPOT

During the past week gifts in kind have been received at the depot, next Post Office, from the following: —Miss Menzies, Mr Hall, J. H. Wilson, J. H. Tipping, Miss Manson, Miss Meares, Miss Florance, Mrs E. P. Burbury, Miss M. Joyce, Mrs C. Blake, C. Rudd, Mr Ashcroft, Mrs D. Bates, Dr Levinge, Mrs Preston, Mrs W. Ballantyne, Miss Bella Head, Miss Calvert, Mrs Munro, Mrs E. Anscombe, Mr Belmer, B. Seth Smith, George Head, T.- Crease, Mr Lessey, Nurse Gilkes, Mrs Jones, Miss Gardiner, T. G. Burch, Mrs Kimington, A. E. G. Rhodes (per J. Sinclair), R. H. Rhodes (per R. Miller), Miss Sorensen, Mrs G. H. Merton, A. Freeman, Mrs Rice, Godfrey Hall, J. Baxter, M. S. H. Manning, A. Dalton, Mrs F. H. Brittan, -Weedons School Children, Miss M. Field, Mrs H. L. Bowker, Mrs J. S. Kelly, G. Turner, Mrs Davie, Mrs J. Rowe, Mrs F. H. Pyne, Mrs Osborn, Mrs C. H. Croxton, Mrs M. Barnett, Mrs P. Overton, Mrs Aeton-Adams, Scargill Branch, B. Seth Smith, Mrs G. E. Rhodes, Mr Young, Mrs F. W. Buddie, C. E. Gibbons and Co., Brown, Little, and Co., A. E. Bussell, Mrs E. J. Cooksley, J. Gimblett, G. E. Rhodes (per J. Keetley), Medbury Sale of Work and numerous anonymous donations. I

Cash amounts have been received as follow:—Broomfield School £3, Miss M. Waugh's pupils £l, Mrs C. F. Todhunter £l, Miss Ethel Bowker £1 10/-, Anonymous £5 5/-, Teddington School Children £3, Coutts Island Basket Social £lO.

The guessing competition for cushion made and donated by Mrs J. R. Triggs was won by Miss Pauline Shoobridge, who returned it to the depot for the good of the fund. Mr Harry Thomas has collected a further £6 14/6 for the Overseas Tobacco Fund, which will be forwarded to London by the first mail. Mr W. P. Raphael, dentist, has donated a £lO 10/- set of teeth, for which the depot want a buyer. On Friday (Christmas Eve) the ladies of the Burwood-Shirley Red Cross Guild held a sale at the Depot of Foodstuffs of all kinds, which was generously patronised the public, and resulted in the extremely satisfactory sum of £9B being added -to the funds. The [ladies wish to thank all those who by personal help or by gifts contributed to the success of the sale. The cake-guess-ing competition was won by Miss Greer, £3 Poulson Street, Addington.

RED CROSS FUND. The Order of St. John and New Zealand Red Cross Society acknowledges the following subscriptions for the week ended December 23 for the sick and wounded, soldiers at the various hospitals where New Zealanders are lying:— Previously acknowledged £12,961 8/6; Christchurch Cathedral offertories (November 2), £l2 3/10, the Tawera Patriotic Association £lO, Anonymous 3/-, Mrs R. IT. Wood (monthly) £2, School Children (Eiffelton) 6/-, Children of Standard I. (Philipstown School) 2/9, Evan and Doris Musgrove (proceeds of children's bazaar) £1 10/11, Belfast Infant School (per Miss Cook) 10/-; total, £12,988 5/-. The Ladies' Committee also acknowledge receipt of gifts in kind from the following:—Philipstown Red Cross Branch (per E. S. Washer), Miss Freeman's Bee, Junior Teachers East Belt Sunday School, Mrs Neave, Motukarara [and Gebbie's Valley Red Cross (per Mrs Campbell Gebbie), Mrs McMaster, Miss Bourn's Sewing Party, Mrs McFarlane, Mrs Graham, Mrs Mackintosh, Mrs Ed. White, Mrs Firth, Miss Kirk, Mrs Daly, Mrs Herbert, Ashley Gorge School (per Mr C. A. Kerr), Mrs Wetherell, Mrs Parker, Doyleston Red Cross, Yaldhurst Red Cross, Prebbleton Red Cross, Cricketers' Bandage Team, Cashmere Hills Branch (per Mrs Bennett), Anon, St. Albans Red Cross, Rakaia Branch, Horsley Downs Branch (per Mrs Rutherford), Woodend-Waikuku Branch, Miss Inwood, Anon, Southbrook Red Cross, St. Martins-Spreydon, Miss Bowker, Miss Ethel Bowie er, Latimer Square Branch, Harewood Road School, Woolston Branch, Home and Empire League (Geialdine), Greendale Branch.