WAR FUNDS

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7711, 22 April 1916, Page 4

WAR FUNDS

WHAT WAIRARAPA HAS DONE. A SPLENDID RECORD. As evidence of the practical loyalty of the Wairarapa district the following list of gifts for war relief purposes, taken from the “Post,” furnishes food for thought:— In a single day Wairarapa subscribed over £BOO for the Kiosk Hospital, Trentham (a national work). Wairarapa provided £I2OO for a soldiers’ hall (another national enterprise) at the Featherston Camp. An appeal by the Wairarapa Patriotic Society to similar bodies in other districts produced only £25 (given by Hawke’s Bay). For the projected Anzac Club (national), Featherston, veteran settlers of the Wairarapa have provided £BOOO. By the medium of Mr John McMasters’ gift for the “Trentham Queen” the cash remitted to the Wellington Patriotic Society amounted to £II,OOO. For the relief of Belgians, Servians, Montenegrins, British Red Cross, French Red Cross, and the comfort of New Zealand’s wounded soldiers overseas, Wairarapa lias sent £14,508. War relief contributions in the Wairarapa district amount to £165,000 from a population of 18,878 —an average of £8 14s per head. It is estimated that Wairarapa gave £20,000 out of the £BO,OOO (the total of Wellington’s fund when at its maximum, for wounded and sick soldiers and their dependents).