BRITISH SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' BABIES' FUND.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15048, 16 April 1919, Page 4 (Supplement)

BRITISH SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' BABIES' FUND.

MOTUEKA

(From "Hie Colonist," April 14th:) Mrs. Thorp wishes to acknowledge the following subscriptions and donations to the above 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 6d, "Yankee" 7s 6d, ■ !"J» "J" £1. Donation, Mrs. Limmer 10s. The following have contributed garments:—Mrs. Hudson, Miss Deck, Miss Olive Wallace, Miss Dasaunais, also a 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:— "We have just received arid 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' many 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 mothei> when they have anything really' new for theft- 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 Ic-^ from the little places in which' you t'll us the population is so small, to h; t/e collected such a large.number of f-.u-ments."

| In acknowledging a case sent in I October, Mrs. Melland writes:—"Tbe 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 Jiad 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. v 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 dPwn> But we w should be thankful that not one of your baxes addressed to us has gone astray or to the of the sea. The weather is intensely. cold, snow and frost on top, so you can imagine how useful the quilts will be." .