UPPER HUTT RELIEF

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2168, 5 June 1914, Page 8

UPPER HUTT RELIEF

J FUND CLOSED TOTAL SUM, RAISED, £1301, A meeting of tho Rolkf Co-m»Httoe : wlticli wits set up in connection with tho ! recent Upper Hutt disaster w-as held at Hi* Town Hall yestenkv .al'ternowi, Tbe Mayor (Mr. J. V. Luke) presided In opeumi; the proMsedings, tho Jlayor ■ stated that lie- wished to heartily titanic these who Imd co-ntriWtcd to tlt.o fund. , lio thouglit that they would have inul a ■ better res pause 'from tins public-, tow* everj if such a large -claim on tho .public had not bo«n niado in the first ptaco, ; When that ckiai was njado people »a-t----urfil to know what was tta ! position hi regard to tho public servants who fi,a<{ .lost their lives, li:t respeetto these, be and some members of the cotHniitteQ had approaelred Minis- . ters s and, as a result, t-h.oy wore practieatly certain that a' -satisfnetoiy sum \yottlu be set aside by PariiMveijt iee these cases. Goutraningj Mr. Wso stated that at tho tima iA\o% tho-. puMic were ap.peakd to for £2000, -interest in the fund had eosted so(ne*hat : , as other calamities had happened: in. tko moan'time. Ho-wover, a total of. £1351 &■* 73, had biien ooileeted. 'lW.if4 tjrls dmouiit The iDwisurtf airrt tho "Evening f ost iJ had <loi)e valuable s-etvioo by ftponhig tliek offjces for tho receipt of subscriptions, w'irilo the %*$ W : eJli.ii|j't-on jietts■papers had afefl p,iven pit.Mjaity to tho fmid. Tiir? "Etfe&fng Post" list had totalled £271 7s. 3d., ,-tnd The BcnjiN-ios list £118 10. Mr.' A. M. :San»oi had done Trojan work, having Bolleetod £173 : 175.. and Mrs. Luke's-ftwfl'lwJ totialiefl £193 Ms. lOd. Tho Upncr ttutt tm& Ml yielded £.147 Ss, M., -and Mr. A.' J. M 4 Cu«}y had collected 429 W.&.,} while Mr. DavMsro had raised £$!), Tjp ■tiil the- present, disl«irsp.mottts Imd ai.neiu'ilwi te_ £72 Os.j this, .sitisi CDtoprisißg fidyorfeing, funeral e'speiises,, -and.- &% already espendeft in reljsrf. Mivl?. IViwiisend, Mr. P. ,J. o'JJ.epan, and. Mr. ' iJavidson aW spfike. Mr. ToWtesond said that he felt a little disappointed that the publk had not. responded more liberally to tho appoajj ; a'tjt| lie was sure that a'.greater sum would have hew. raised' had it .not been an-; MMtticed in the first lßsianco t-hnt siid'li a. large- anioiifft was osfeetflci.. A iijot-inn wa-g then passed ttvattho accounts bo closed.;' It wivs also decided t» phiee oil .roctfrd tlso til.vSiifcs-of tlm oscoutive- to- those who had a;ssiste.d in raising sub'scripMon*. A mofen of.ap-precintio-n was also passed in rcgaffl to, tho serv-icos wnidtred by Jlfcftsrs, xa.it ».id OottiftS. secretary and treasurer, Mspp.BWvely. - fho suins- mentioned ataye were oftlv grvon a : .pprox.i;mat€jy,j as it is tujdejstood that tltero are. still somo Sfrbscriptions fe eome in.: ■-~.•■'