LADY LIVERPOOL DEPOT NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12405, 24 August 1918, Page 8

LADY LIVERPOOL DEPOT NOTES.

Amongst the numerous acknowledgments tuat arrived from the front m last week’s mail was one from a corporal in 306 Infantry, D.S.A, The American much appreciated the New Zealand gift parcel. The Lady Liverpool Gifts are sent entirely to the New Zealand Division, and the acknowledgment of a parcel by an American soldier bsars out our cable messages to the effect that American regiments are lighting with, the Dominion Forces. It is also an interesting fact to know that the American people are sending gifts to the New Zealanders; one school in New York having recently sent 000 pairs of socks to the Second Canterbury Battalion.

Tho XMAS parcels are shipped, but the special fund is still short of the required amount, and donations may still be sent in.

Most excellent _ gifts for the Xmas parcels were received from the school children and country branches. The KNITTING Competition is running very close in several branches. Tho socks sent in are of very good quality, and will be specially welcome in the trenches as winter advances.

A musical treat is being arranged by the Methodist Sunday Schools, assisted by members, of choirs. Special music has been obtained from England, and under the leadership of Air H. Gladstone Hill, hundreds of young singers have been practising each week for the last two months. Leading instrumentalists in the city will form an orchestra forty or fifty-strong, while the choir will consist of nearly 700 voices. The festival is under the patronage of her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool, and the whole of the proceeds will be devoted to sending trench comforts to the front. Two performances will be given in the Colosseum on the last Wednesday and Thursday in September.

Donations have been received from: -Mrs Secretan £1; Mr P. L. Hallenstein (monthly don.) £5. BRANCHES: Spreydon (monthly don.) £5, Doric (monthly) £1 14s 3d, Tai Tapu (monthly don.) £6, Westport £25 7s 6d.

MISCELLANEOUS: Proceeds from sale of doll’s bedstead, £7 14s 6d, per Hinemoa Swimming Club, Technical College 45Gifts in kind received from;—Mosdames Akins, Blackmorc, F. C. Horrel, Secretan, J. Bates, J. Tait, Chambers, M’Cracken, J. A. Hamilton, A. W . Rutherford, J. Robinson, Butler, Al’Kcnna, J. W. Boylen, Robbins, Bong, Weston, Sutherland, Watson, G Radford, T. Chisnall, Richards, J. Hazlett Sutherland, Oognn, lies Pratt, Dobbin, Hodgson, Wills, Newman, L. Wilson, F. E. Hyman, Torlesse, Misses Macfarlanc, Barr, Washbourn, Edna, Garrett, Messrs Chapman, Jack Rundle, Lamb and Sons Vco Jones, T. F. Murray, R. Oakley, Hislop, Benny and Allan Thorp, J. Bingins, G. Gates.

SCHOOLS: Bromley, East Christchurch, Technical, Richmond, Dnnrmidel, Somcrfield, Technical ColDgo Hostel, Lyttelton District High, Christchurch Training College, AVeedous, Cashmere, Aliss Palmer’s Kindergarten, Private School Spreydon, Selwyn, Allenton, AAest Christchurch. Gifts in kind received from:—

BRANCHES; Scargill and Alotunau, Doric, Tai Tapu, Springfield, Spreydon, Lohnrn, Kirwee, Ohoka, AVaimato Alayoress Fund, Overdale, AVonrhuid and AVaikuku, Greymouth, Sheffield, Dunsandel, Ashburton, Pendarves, AVaikari, Sumner, Robinson’s Bay, Gobble's Valley'and Alotnkarara Guild. Al ISCELLANEOU S: Linwoocl-Da;-lington Soldiers’ Aid, East Belt Soldiers’ Guild, Christchurch Ladies’ Lite Saving Club, St Andrew’s Guild, A.L.S., Sydenham Alothors’ Union’ Tramway C., St David’s uirls Club, Sydenham, The Orphanage. 1