THE PATRIOTIC FUND

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2237, 25 August 1914, Page 6

THE PATRIOTIC FUND

PRIME MINISTER'S.LIST FILLING THE WAR CHEST The Prim© Minister hopes when Paru liament meete to furnish approximate totals of the donations so far made to the Patriotic Fund. Yesterday Mr Massey acknowledged the following fur•tiicr donations, most of them forwarded and others promised:— ? Gtago Motor Club (Duncdin), - ' two motors, and 274 0 0 General Fund— : Through Pahiatua Herald ' m Co. (third instalment) ... 19 5 0 Through "Evening Post'? , _ (for week ending Aug. 21) 668 15 0 Government Departments ... 110 0 Maoris of Manakau (14 bags potatoes). ■■■-..- Petane and Eskdale' Committee, Napier (Ladies' Com- . mittee); also £20 towards material and clothing. Men in Kawaka station ! . • camp promise one day's : pay (£lo),' and -horses luive been given 266 14 0 Turakina residents (100 : sacks of oat's,. 60 sacks oat .chaff, 2 horses, half-ton chaff, and'one sack potatoes for gift sale) 179 1 0 £~"«, Jockey Club .250 0 0 _ Whata Whata settlers (first contribution); about £30 worth of chaff also'donated ......... 65 0 0 Pateraugi Farmers' Union : . - (Te Awamutu) 101 .5 0 Levin and Co. (Foxton) ... 100 0 0 B. G. Gower (Foxton) ...... 25 0 0 Tokoraaru Bay Fund (second instalment) 52 8 10 L. H. M'Hardy (of Blackhead Station, H. 8.) ...... 100 0 0 Marton Citizens— , Tlirough Town Clerk, Marton ..:.... 11 0 0 Through Bank N.S.W. ... 7 7 0 Residents , of Wakapuaka . and district .....124 9 0 Subscribers at Methven ...... 351 1 0 Makotuku Patriotic Commit-. " . tee „ .v.;. "30 10 10 Messrs. Ward and .Co. 1 (Christchurch) ....„.;.; 250 0' 0 The Crown Brewery Co., : Ltd. (Christehur'ch) • 250 0 0 Papakura Patriotic Committee ....;.. 100 0 0 Eastings Empire Defence , ; Committee .................... 1,333 -2''o Greymduth War .Contingent / •' . Fund Committee (first instalment) ..............:. 2,000 0 0 The Farmers' Co-op. Insur- • ance Assn. of N.Z., Ltd.,'' ' Christchurch ..<...... '76 0 .0 Other Contributions. Ladies of' St. Kilda (to the Liverpool Fund). .....'..;.;.. 46 12 3 Morrinsville Farmers' Union (equipment 6th Hauraki Regiment and 4th Waikato Mounted Squadron) ...'..'.'...'•126 15 6 Mataura Citizens'. Committee (General and Horse Fund) ~'..... 77 6 0 J. Costall, Rongoteaj. (equipment) ..; ..;........ 50 0 Bible-in-State-Schools League of N.Z. (second instalment) (two field arabu- ' lances) .■....'.....„'........, -500 0, 0 Manawatu Patriotic Fund Committee, Palmerston.Ni. . (equipment) |:,..•,...,...;;..... 250, 0 ■ 0 At 1 a special meeting of the Hutt . County' Council yesterday, ■ it was bided'to moke ..a- contribution of to the Patriotic Fund. .This, contribution was made in, "response to a telegram from the Prime Minister. The gun-carriages built by the employees of the Petone Railway Work? shops-will: be paraded in a procession and drawn, by the men, through .the . principal streets of the City to-morrow. The procossion will leave Lambton Railway Station at noon; headed by a firstclass band. A collection, will be taken up for the Patriotic Fund. *: . _ The collection taken up by the Salvation Army. on. Saturday for the Patriotio Fund amounted to £37 6s. Id. •:

A patriotic picture-benefit was held in tha Lower Hutt- Town Hall last evening, Dr. Mason presiding over an exceptionally large audience. An address was delivered by Mr. T. M. Wilfordj M.P., and a number of appropriate musical and elocutionary items were rendered. Appropriate were screened by the Town Hall proprietary, who gave the hall gratis. .;■■'

'A unique procession through 1 'the streets of Wellington will be witnessed at noon on Wednesday. The Petone Railway Workshops bavo_ had a busy time during the past fortnight .manufacturing special vehicles for the Expeditionary Force. The work, is now completed, and the men, who have been working at high pressure, have applied for and received permission to have a procession before the vehicles are handed over to the Defence Department. The men, who will be in their working clothes,-, will draw the vehicles through the streets, headed by a brass band, and accompanied by ladies* who will be armed with collection boxes, in which to take toll from the. general public, the proceeds going to augment the patriotic fund now being raised.Some £140 has been given in Manakau towards the Patriotic Fund, also five horsos valued at £100. In Otakt the fund is still swelling,,while another consignment of goods will shortly V forwarded to Wellington./

in other.centr.es. (By. Telofjrnpli—Press Association.) Chrlstchuroh, August 24. .' • A big. demonstration in aid of'the" Patriotic Fund was held; in;,the city this afternoon. A long procession paraded 'through the main streets and drew up at Oianmer Square,' where speeches were delivered by the Mayor, the Hon; R. H. ; Rhodes, Sir Joseph Ward, and others. \ „, '■' Invercarglll, August 24. The Southland Patriotic Fund .to-day totalled £5200, Thero is a good'.response to the call for volunteers for the Expeditionary. Force, and this district is sending its full quota. ' "THE DOMINION" LISTS. The following, are the donations to Tee Dominion's War Fund-? list to date: — .'■ WAR FUND. , ■ ' £: s. d. Previously acknowledged 1,418 4 6 RELIEF FUND. :

Contributions to the fund for the tolicf of local cases of distress as a result of the war will bo kept entirely separate from the War Fund, and will bo used solely for the purposo .'designated. £ s. d. Previously acknowledged ... 305 0 0"K" : 1 0 0 Total 306 0 0

MAYOR'S PATRIOTIC FUND. . £ s. d. Amount previously acknowledged 1,329 4 4 Collections (2) Alex. Watson (Aug. 23, 191,1) 82 5 4Hebrew Congregation (Saturday col- : lection) 32 8 0 . T. Melvillo 5 0 0 C. G.' Shenvood 5 0 0 H. Hume 2 2 0. £1,455 19 9 .