BRITISH SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' BABIES' FUND.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15046, 14 April 1919, Page 2

BRITISH SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' BABIES' FUND.

MOTUEKA.

j -Mrs. Thorp wishes to acknowledge the -following, subscriptions' and donations to the abo.vo fund:—Mesdames Livesey 15s, Henderson £1 10s, Trewavas ss, .Hudson 10s, Wallace 7s 6d C. Mackay 14s 6d, Percy 7s 6d, Nicholson 7s 6d; Misses Deck 2s, Esther ss, ; Messrs. Hudson 10s .Anderson 12s 6d !"H" 7s 6a, "Yankee". 7s 6d, "J" "J" £1. Donation, Mrs. Limnier 10s. • The following have contributed gar-' merits:—Mrs. Hudson, Miss Deck, Miss Olive Wallace, Miss Desaunais, also af'parcel of garments from the ladies of Stanley Brook and Tapawera. In acknowledging a ■ box of clothing sent home last September, the secretary of" the ' Church Army writes: "AVo have just received and unpacked the case of clothing about which you wrote to us in November of last year, which we understand is the gift of the British Soldiers and Sailors' Fund, Motueka, Stanley Brook and Tapawera. It is indeed a splendid and most • welcome contribution, and has come at just the right time. The weather has become so cold, and we are finding it ,so difficult to get sufficient warm clothes for all the poor people who come to us. I should be so grateful if you would thank the manyll kind donors who have been instrumental in making and sending these things, and particularly the children whose names •I see attached to many of the garments. I wish some of them could see the delight of the poor mothers when they have anything really new for their children. .They "usually say, 'Oh, it does not matter about me; only have you got something for the children.' It must have been a real labour of love from the little places in whlrh you tell us the population is so small, to have collected such a large number of garments."

In acknowledging a case senb in October, Mrs. Melland writes:—"The small case of clothing sent by the Rimutaka has arrived, but I regret to say, for the first time on record, not safely. Thirty-three garments have been stolen, amongst them being the beautiful brown coat frock and child's coat you told us about. As soon as I opened the box I saw it had been tampered with. Then I came to your note re Mrs. Thorn's quilt, in which you gave the number of garments, 86 and 6 quilts. I counted and found only 53. I saw each wire had been cut and a side removed. It was all carefully nailed up and staples holding the wires down. But we should bo thankful that not one of. your baxes addressed to us has gone astray or to the fcottorii of the sea. The weather is intensely cold, snow and frost on top, so you can imagine how useful the quilts -will be." .