HOSPITAL SHIP AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS' FUND.

Waikato Times, Volume 84, Issue 13187, 29 May 1915, Page 4

HOSPITAL SHIP AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS' FUND.

Subscriptions to die above fund will bo received by the Mayor (Mr A. E. Manning); Mr R. J. S. Gray, treasurer, and the Waikato Times, and will be acknowledged in this column. Received up to 10 a.m. to-day :

THE £2O FUND.

The following are the additional amounts to the £2O Fund, which now totals £7so:

£ s. d. R. flannon 20 0 0 E. Hall 20 0 0 Jno. Gordon 20 0 0 J. W. Walsh 20 0 0 ilrs H. Wilder ... 20 0 0 The following extra equipment lias also been received:— Mr Moffatt, 1 dozen pairs socks.

.Messrs M. Darke and S. Tombs, organisers for the guessing competition at tiie Winter Show for the Hospital Ship and Wounded Soldiers' Fund, report that #hey have received the following donation of prizes, to a total value of about £100:

Master Willie Clarkin, Shetland pony.

Messrs Jenkins and Mclntyre, bicycle (ladies' or gent.'s). Messrs Booth and Chapman, picture. Hamilton Hardware Co., doublebarrelled gun. Mrs J. Williams, six ladies' hats. Messrs E. Jones and Co., saddle fully equipped. Mr J. Varnoy, rug. The Metal Stores, piece of plate. Mr C. F. Bond, a trophy. Ladies of Karamu, carved doll's cot and furnishings.

Miss Sunday Quick, ostrich egg

Further donations of prizes will be gratefully received by the organisers up to Monday evening.

SHIRKING FINANCIAL RESPONSI-

BILITY.

A CAMBRIDGE PROTEST

By Telegraph.—Special to Times. CAMBRIDGE, Saturday

, At last night's meeting of the Cambridge Borough Council the Mayor, Mr M. "Wells, when speaking of the furnishing of the hospital ship, spoke in no measured terms of the way in which many of the well-to-do people were shirking their duty by not giving anything to the fund. He said since the war commenced he had had much to do with the various funds connected therewith, and he was astounded to see that it was practically the same people who made donations to all of them. This lie found was the ease in Auckland as well as in the Waikato, and he believed there were many more who shirked their financial responsibility than others did enlisting, and some means should be devised to make them give of thenwealth. He then moved: ''While working whole-heartedly on the lines suggested by His Excellency the Governor, we are of opinion that the Government should have undertaken the task of equipping the hospital ship out of the public revenue, instead of leaving it to the generosity of the public, whereby the contributions were made absolutely at variance with the democratic principles of the people. We feel that a tax over the whole community, according to each individual's resources, is the only fair and equitable basis. At present many well-to-do people fail to contribute a single farthing, and the* present procedifre. merely encourages financial shirkers."

The motion was duly seconded and agreed to nem. con.

WELLINGTON, Saturday

The Department of Internal Affairs acknowledges the receipt of £9208 on behalf of the Hospital Fund.

Amount previously acknowPL s. u. lodged 942 7 2 J'cnkin and Mclnty re 5 ■"> 0 John Primrose 5 5 0 Mr M. MeNickle ..'. •") 0 0 Mr A. C. Ross' ... ■A 3 0 Mr and Mrs Jacob Wright 2 o 0 L. W. Faville ... 2 2 0 Miss Edgecambe ... 1 1 0 Mr s Ross 1 1 0 Mr Meredith, sen. 1 0 (1 A Sport ) 0 0 Mrs Hewlett 0 10 0 R. Foster 0 10 0 Mrs Browning, b"al a iicti II 0 6 Additional amount to £20 Fund 100 0 0 1070 0 8