PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2329, 10 December 1914, Page 5

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

PRIME MINISTER'S LIST Further contributions sent to the Prime Minister are:— £ e.-a. "Square Deal," Wellington 0 9 9 Levin, Otaki, and West Coast Farmers' Patriotic Fund, Levin > \ 200 0 0 DISTRESS RELIEF FUND FOR THE POOR OF - GREAT BRITAIN. IRELAND, AND BELGIUM. The Wellington Committee of thePoor of Great Britain and Ireland and I Belgium Relief Fund acknowledges receipt of the following donations to the Fund:—-- ■ ■ ! ■ • , & s. d. Previously acknowledged ' 12,933 -14 11 Hawke's Bay A. and P.' So- . ciety (per His Excellency the Governor) 1450 0 0 Collections in the Roman Catholic Churches of' the Archdiccese of -Wellington/additional) 322 15 8.! Staff of Government Printing ! Office (proceeds from sale of flowers) L;\ ■85 6 8 Mrs. Howden „ 0 5 0 T. and AV. Young .25 0 0 Infilia Bros, (additional) .... 1 0 0 Total -. ':. 14,818 '1 10 BELGIAN REFUGEE'S IN ENGj LAND. Br Telegraph—Press Aisooiotloil-OlDTriglit • _ London, December 8. ' I It is estimated-that tb,ero are a hundred thousand Belgian refugees in England, and that two thousand additional are being brought over weokly. ~.,• Work has beon found for artisans and labourers with the approval of ths trades unions, on conditions that they are employed only in trades whore there is a shortage of British workers, and at union wages, while the war lasts.— ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) 1 , THE " DOMINION" LISTS ■ The following are tho donations to The Dominio.n''s War Fund lists to date:— I BELGIAN RELIEF FUND. Contributions to the fund for the relief of tho Belgians in distressi will subsequently ba forwarded to the authorities in Belgium for distribution £ s. d. Amount previously acknowledged 6778 15 0 St. L. H. Gribben 10 10 0 Wm. Watson 10 10 0 Miss Healy 7 0 0 Robert Orr, Lower Hutt (second instalment) .... 5 0 0 Mrs. J. Stylos (sale of roses, fifth instalment) : 10 0 E. Steele 10 0 "J.H." /. 10 0 Total 6814 5 0.