MR. M‘HARDY INTERVIEWED.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 145082, 6 September 1916, Page 5

MR. M‘HARDY INTERVIEWED.

The Anzac art union closed on Saturday night. Mr. ,I'. M‘Hardy, who has been the big Rader in the movemont to raise funds for tno object in view, was an interested spectator of Saturday’s merry interlude. He said that the art union had achieved its object, which was to build and endow the hostel that was to hi- erected for ■soldiers on the section of land in Palmerston North he had given. He anticipated that well over .BldjOOO had been realised Irom the sale, of tickets, whilst at the outside he did not think that tho advertising account would amount to more than £2OOO. An affair of this kind had to be well advertised, and tho justification was to he lound in the result. Now they wore safe us for as the hostel was concerned, and what was more impoitant it would be decently endowed. That was really the must important part of it. If there was not £2OO or £OOO coming every year to keep the thing going, it would, soon after the war. go to seed. Now it had a reasonable prospect ot hie. Mr M'Hardv, on behalf of the committee. said‘ho was very grateful to Messrs. Goldin and Crawford for the assistance they had given nun ui Wellington, and also to all helper), and the public for the line response they brief mode. Tho art union is to bo drawn at tho Opera House. Milmeiston North, on Friday evening next.