RECENT TRAMWAY FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1508, 2 August 1912, Page 5

RECENT TRAMWAY FATALITIES

HELP K)tt Tim WIDOWS AND CiIILUKK.V. A movement is afoot. for tho relief of (he widows and children of the tramway conductors (Messrs. Hancock mid M'Kay) recently killed whilst on duty ou tho city cars. Those depending on them hava hern lpl't in very needy circumslances, unci to give will ho nn act of genuina charily. Any subscriptions sent to Tin; ])ominios ollicc, from near and far, will ls-3 acknowledged. '• Active measures are being taken to ; raise a fnnil to Ik> equally divided between Iho bereft women, anil these should elicit n generous response from the 'general public. •_ At lapi cvpiiiiip's meeting of tho Wet- ; Liedertiifel, the committee considered a 'proposal to! Rive ai bi(? benefit concert in the Town Hall. This was submitted lo tho members at rehearsal, ami ' unanimously approved. The Licdertafel intend to secure the very liest available talent for (ho concert, and it line popular programme is already assured. The. concert will take placo 011 Thursday'evening , next. llr. Mills, president of the Tramway Union, who has been taking up 11 subscription amongst tramway men in aid of tho widows, lias collected about to ( ; date. '■ At a meeting of tho Wellington Cily • . Band (late Garrison), held last night, it was decided to give a band performance in aid of the widows of Conductors A, M'Kay and Hancock, at the Newtown Pork 011 Sunday afternoon next. The proprietors of the Star Theatre, Newtown, arc to give* a . benefit picture performance 011 Friday evening next. ( The services of the Wellington Dramatic Society Imvo been ofl'ere:], but so- far 110 1 date lias been definitely fixed for (he performance. AN APPEAL. "Dear sic,—l am sure at the prefonfc time there is a universal feeling of sympathy with the young widow and babe of the lalo Ambroso M'Kay, who met bin death in such a tragic way last. week. I am thinking that a movement might b» set; 011 foot to collect funds for the purpose of providing Mrs. M'Kay ;with a passago homo (0 Scotland, and the knmvledno that something Was being done by tho sympathetic public would relieve her mind of some of liio terrible strain that must be 011 it at the present moment. May I propose, that, a. jmljlic list bo staiicd.,for "the stranger within our gates," through Ihc columns of your widely-read journal. I'm sure tliero are hundreds who would be only too willing to assist in such a deserving case.—l am, etc., i " COLONIALS