BELGIAN SHILLING FUND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2327, 8 December 1914, Page 7

BELGIAN SHILLING FUND

The response to tho appeal for subscriptions to the Belgian Shilling Fund has ! _been prompt and generous. - ; In' Wellington -alone the ladies have collected over £500 in a few days. Much, however, * remains'to-'be done;-*'■■■Tlie sum that the committee set'out to : raise as £20,000, and only a fortnight and a few days remain in which 1 to collect it. . •■ . " . The committee hegs to acknowledge tie following amounts :—-W. :G. Wood (Napier), £1; Stephenson and Liiiley's Royal Pantomime Co., street : collection;' £98; 6s. 9d.; "Anonymous;" 'per The Dominion. £1; "Anonymous; ,, ; Pal- : merston North, 65.; Land Transfer Department, £1 125.; the Treasury Department, £2. 75.;. the Stamp Department, 155.; tho Registrar-General's Department, £1 Is.; the Accountants 1 Branch, G.P.Q., £5 Uβ.; .iJCe-Harold Kemp, £1 Iβ.; the Land and Survey ■' Department, £1 10s.; theiiEducation Department, £2 195.; H.:>t Kennedy, Stratford, 55.;.-Mr; T. H. Gfoome and. friends, ■ 155.; J. H. G. Murdoch, Napier, £2 25.; tho Audit. Department; < £2 25.; the "Pelorus Guardian," <-£s'j the Land and Income .Tax Department, £2 125.; the Government Printing Office, £7 55.; the Ohinemuri" County Council, £3 165.: the Public-Service Commissioner's office, 145.; .the Wanganui "Herald," £10 3s. 6d.; the' Thames Harbour Board, £1 Is.; Mrs: J: 'Peter-; son (Whangamomona), £5; "Kolburn : district, £54 7s'. 6d.; "M.S.'i-and"N." (Invercargill), ,35.-: total, £210 14s. 9d: J ■ The movement has beei talten'upby various a6socjations in the; followingtowns outside Wellington :—Auckland, Dunedin, Napier, Hastings, Wanganui; Masterton, Dannevirke, Kaiapoi, Havelock, Wood\alle, Whangamomona, Takapau, Pahiatua, Bulls, Waitara, Raiirimu, Darfield, Waverley, Otahuhu, Pohangina. Subscription lists can ?be obtained from the honorary - secretary, Mr. H. Amos, c.o. Banke's : Commercial College, Wellington. , ;- •