CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FUND.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13329, 1 February 1912, Page 2

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FUND.

A muetins of the committee a".d subscribers to the above named fund was held., yesterday afternoon at the City Council Chamber, when Mrs. ('. Y. Foil presided.

Mr. >>'. V.'. Snodgrass, the .vre.'-o-tary stated th.> object of tho meethu>;. Mr. G. A. Edmonds, the treasurer, presented a statement of tJi-v i'liutl which showed thi> receipts to have been £3.53 15 3 lie!, and the e.xp-md-ituro £14 18s 9d. loaving a balniTV in the bank of £;I?,H 17s 2d.

It was resolved to hand over tl-.o amount of the fund- to the Hospital Board, on the condition that the amount, together with tho- Government subsidy accruing be ear-m:-.)-k;'d for the erection of a children's w:ml. It was resolved that Mescl.iu;c3 Allen, Bisley, T. Pet-tit, and Messrs. &. A. Edmonds and "\V. W. Snod;u-ass oo appointed an advisory committee to watch over the interests of the proposal.

Votes of thanks were passed to Mr Foster, whose concert realised £45 Of, 6d ;to the management of Hayward's Pictures for an eniertphiiiieiit roahsiog £53 Is; to the members of the iNelson Amateur Operatic vSoci^ty lor£l6 ]ls 9d proceeds of "D r ty,'.}" entertainment;-to the Xdron Garrison, >k']son Citizens', :md Tti\-"!--'i Bands, for £6 15s (id taken at c'^)corts; to friends at Murehisou f ( . r f:0 16s, proceeds of a conc-rt; to the <■«}- ---lectors in the city and country • to 1 ho secretary and treasurer; to" .Mrs. C. l. I't'lJ; and to the local rnvspaiiers for thoir assistance. flic meeting then adjourned.