PATRIOTIC AND RELIEF FUNDS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14863, 10 September 1918, Page 1

PATRIOTIC AND RELIEF FUNDS.

RED CROSS FUND. i Mr. J. P. Hayes "acknowledge -^ ■Mrs. S. B. White, 10s for 4 months Union Jack Tea Rooms, £14- T-ipa-wera, per Miss Macmahon, £3 12s as follows: August collection £2 5s Cd -afternoon tea at saleyards Scptembpi :oth 18s 6d, proceeds from small dance Bs. ■Received afc the .depot:—Murelii son .build, per Mrs. Downie, 5 pyjama .suits • Maungarakau school children, per Miss Forno,'4 scarves. ITALIAN RED CROSS FUND. Mr J. Vitetta acknowledges receipt from Mr Colin Campbell of £2 10s. proceeds of cake .sold on behalf of the Italian Red Cross Fund. , i SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS' FUND. -The 'lion, treasurer of the . Nr-lson Sick and Wounded Soldiers' Fund acknowledges the following subscriptions for August:—Bishop Mules £1 G. A. _;Harkness.£l, W. Cowin £v. MINE-SWEEPERS' FUND. Mrs. Knapp acknowledges, tlio following donations:—Mrs. Kemp, 1 Balaclava cap and 1 pair socks.; Mrs; Buchanan, 1 pair mittens; Miss Jenkins, 1 balaclava cup; Mrs. G. Page, 1 scarf: Mrs. Bruce, 2s Gd. | BRITISH SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' ; FUND. j Mrs Hanron, acknowledges the following subscriptions for May, Jr.;ne, July and August:—Mrs Hanron £2, Miss Forsyth os, Miw A. Barker 6s. NAVY" MEMORIAL WINDOW. A Navy Memorial Window is to be erected in St. Mary's Church in honour of the officers and men of the Royal Navy who have laid down their lives in the great war—"Let not their memory fade." The* treasurer (Miss L. M. Hart) acknowledges, the following subscriptions towards the fund:—H. R. Duncan £1, J. H. Cock £1 Is, James Hart £1. Mrs J. Redwood £1, Mrs Weybourne 10,?,. Torpedo 10s. MOTUEKA SUB-BRANCH RED : CROSS SOCIETY. Mr. Hugh Scott, .hon. treasurer, acknowledges: Riwaka sub-branch monwily contribution, £10; Red Cross Tea Rooms, Thursday takings, £1 03 6d, Saturday takings £1 12s 9d. Subscriptions, per Mrs Strachan 19s, per Miss Desaunais 13s. The amount af .£3 Is credited in last week's acknowledge lent as collected by Mrs. Mackay should have read as collected by Miss Jordan. j BRITISH SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' BABIES' FUND, MOTUEKiA. Mrs R. P. Hudson wishes to acknowledge the following subscriptions to the above fund: —Mesdames Jlenderson 15s, .Gavin Strachan os, Wilkinson ss, Wallaco 5s Livesey ss, Deck 55,, R. P. Hudson' 2s 6d, York 2s 6d, Rhodes 2s 6d, Percy 2s 6d, C. Mackay 4s, Miss Edwards 3s Cornishman 5s v R. P. Hudson 2s 6d; total, £3 4s tid. The following have contributed newj and second-hand-garments:—Me-sdamesl G. Smith, Wratten 'Thorp, Hugh Scott, G. Limmer, and Hudson, Misse.si Daisy Wright, Wilson, Dement, and A', j Esther. .There were also received three1 garments crocheted .by Margaret ixill. ICaikoiira. aged 6; eleven quilts per Mrs Wilkinson, Stanley Brook, from Mesdames Hudson, W. Burrow.s, R. Eban, A. Drummond, W. Weils, J. Thorn (2). J. A. Wilkinson, W. Fenem'or, Eatwell^ and TTorsyth ; sixty-seven, garments per Mrs-Hanron,; Stanley Brook, from Mesdames Hudson, Thorn, Polglaze, Patterson,-- Forsyth, Driimmond, J. \\rilkinson, and Miss Flossie Jordan, aged 11. A further contribution from Mrs Hudson, Tapawera, consisted.;;of 9 beautifx:! garments. ' *' - The following have made garments from materials supplied by the fund:— Mesdames Hugh Scott, Boundy. sen.. Jaques, and Hudson, Misses M.'. ilaiker;* j Des'aunais, A. Deck, Gumming, Jordan,] G. Jordan, and Esther, and Riwaka School 6 garments. The secretary, British and Foreign Sailors' Society, Manchester, writes to Mrs Mclland,:—"Forgive the delay in acknowledging the beautiful pack of clothing which you so kindly Kent for the sailors and their children. I think the children's clothing is splendid, and T know it will be '-greatly appreciated. Itis .so very kind ov your friends of .?iotueka and district and ■Stanley .Brook. The demand for clothing such as you have sent is very great, especially just now when clothing of all kinds is most'expensive.*'-. Mfcs Melland also sends ■ partien la r.s. -too long for publication, .of pathetic, enses- from the Heyrod Street Lads' Club, Manchester, * which have been helped by the fund. A case containing 363 garments has just bc».n sent Homo to the Church Army A London. '