PATRIOTIC FUND.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 592, 3 January 1916, Page 11

PATRIOTIC FUND.

BANKS PENINSULA WAR FUNDS APPEAL. A successful concert and dance was held on New Year's Eve in Mr J; O. Coop's wool shed, Kaituna, in aid of the Kaituna and Birdling 's Flat section of the Peninsula War Funds appeal, when the very satisfactory total of £7OO was : realised. The sale of a Union Jack was responsible for £672. Mr Corsbie, of the Loan and Mercantile Co., acted as auctioneer. Particulars of the sale are as under: — Mr and Mrs Jameson £lO5, W. F. Parkinsorj £52 10/-, John Parkinson £52 10/-, F. G. Birdling £52 10/-, S. Nutt £52 10/-, W. A. Gray £52 10/-, Mrs M. Coop £3l 10/-, Mrs W. F. Parkinson £3l 10/-, Mrs F. Coop £26 5/-, White Brothers £2l, C. and F. Field £2l, B. C. tjuaife £2l, H. A. Nutt £lO 10/-, A. W. Bayley £5 5/-, A. Reath £5 5A,.H. Blyth £5 5/-, C. N. Field £5 5/-, Master' Grant Jameson £5 5/-, R. Reath £5 5/-, H. Matson and Co. £5 5/-, Anderson Bros. £5, Mrs J. Murray (Cashmere) £5, Miss Mavis Coop £2 2/-, Miss K. McPhail £1 1/-, T. Reese £1 1/-, Stanley Birdling £1 1/-, Mrs Morrison £l, S. Trice £l, Mrs I>. Anderson £l, L. Coop £l, James 1, Geo. Dyer £l, Miln £l, Mrs John Parkinson £l, Mrs Corsbie £l, R. Liddle £l, J. Hawkes £l, Mrs C. W. Field £l, R. H. Nottingham 10/-, H. Petri e 10/-, Noal Blythe 10/-, Bert Blythe 10/-, Anderson 10/-, W. Nottingham 10/-, Mrs C. N. Field 10/-, Eric Gray 10/-, A. A. Anderson 10/-, A. McLeod, 10/-, Miss M. Parkinson 10/-, Miss R. Parkinson 10/-, Miss Ina Blythe 5/-, Miss Thelma Blythe 5/-, Miss Macartney 5/-, J. Thomas 5/-, Mr Macartney 5/-, Mr Chamberlain 5/-, Miss D. Field 5/-, Miss M. Gray 5/-, Miss Z. Gray 5/-, Miss R. Gray 5/-, Frida and Joan Field 15/-, Miss M. Jameson 5/-, Miss Marsh 5/-, Mrs S. Harris 5/-, D. Gebbie 5/-, Hulston 10/-, Miss Welsh 5/-, Miss Bates 1 5/-, S. Anderson 5/-, C. Norman 5/-, C. M. Suckling £l-, A Friend £ls. The flag was then finally put up, and was knocked down to Mr W. F. Parkinson for £SO. Mr Parkinson presented it to the Kaituna Domain. There was also realised as the result of a guessing competition for a cushion presented by Mrs Joseph 11. Parkinson, £4 14/-, and for a cake presented by Mrs A. E. Birdling £2, the balance being for door monev, etc., bringing the total to £7OO. The Kaituna and Birdling's Flat stall at Little River on Boxing Lav realised; £42 3/7.