PLIMMER-HALL COMBINATION.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1299, 18 March 1915, Page 36

PLIMMER-HALL COMBINATION.

APPEAL FOR THE BELGIANS. “We did intend originally to tour for the war fund,” said Mr. Harry Plimmer to a “Dominion” interviewer, referring to the Plimmer-Hall project, “but the heart-breaking appeal for help that reached us in Melbourne a few weeks ago at once diverted our intention, and after consulting Mr. Massey we decided on giving all profits to the fund that is being raised in New Zealand to succour Belgium’s starving millions. “I would like to say,” continued Mr. Plimmer, “that the effort we are about to make is an earnest attempt to do our utmost during the next two months to raise money for the fund, and I am insisting from the outset, and right through, that our receipts and expenses shall be checked by a responsible officer of some kind —either n. Government official or an officer appointed for the purpose by the Mayor of the town we happen to be playing in. The artists we have engaged have met Mr. Hall and myself in a most generous spirit, and all are as keen to do all they can for the cause as we are. Before leaving Sydney we submitted our expense sheet to Mr. Hugh J. Ward, of the Williamson management, and he then stated that he would write to his New Zealand friends assuring them that the tour had been arranged on the most econo mical basis.”