PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2379, 8 February 1915, Page 7

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

MAYOR'S PATRIOTIC FUND. £ a. d. Previously acknowledged ... 3757 5 8 Staff, Wellington Harbour Board (12th instalment)... 1 12 0 3753 17 8 MAYOR'S WAR DISTRESS FUND. £ s. d.' Previously acknowledged ... 3429 14 0 Staff, Wellington Harbour Board (12th instalment)... 14 i U 3443 18 0 THE "DOMINION" LISTS. BELGIAN RELIEF FUND. Contributions to the fund for tho relief of the Belgians in distress will subsequently be forwarded to the authorities in Belgium for distribution. £ s. d. . . £ e. d. Previously acknowledged 14,561 3 8 Proceeds from sale of work by Mangaonoho schoolchildren (per Charles M'Connaichie, headmaster, second instalment) 20 8 0 President : Karori Bowling Club (per "Evening Post") 4 5 6 Total 114,585 17 2 A contribution to the Belgian Relief Fund which we acknowledge this morning from Mr. C. M. M'Connaohie, head teacher of the Mangaonoho School, Main Trunk line, affords striking evidence or what school children can accomplish when their hearts are in their work. The school has an attendance of between 40 and 50 children, who during the Christmas holidays busied themselves preparing for a sale of work in aid or the Belgian Relief Fund. So enthusiastic and well directed were their efforts that the sale of work which took place last Wednesday realised 'no -less than £20 os. Bd., which Mr. M'Connachie has eow forwarded to The Dominion office, and which in duo course will be forwarded on' to the unhappy victims ox German ambition and German brutality. The Mangaonoho School children are to be congratulated both on the result oi their effort and the spirit which' prompted it. '•

'ASHBURTON'S FINE EFFORT. ' v ßy TeleeratfU.'—Press Aosociatioß.) Ashburton, February 7. During the last four months the Ashburton fund for relief of distress in Great Britain and Belgium has been subscribed for slowly but steadily, and on Friday its total stood at £-000. Tho committee resolved a fortnight ago tliat a bigger effort should be made, however, and a representative meeting oi the public was held yesterday to ■ urge the claims of the fund, and to organise the collecting on a more extensive basis. It was stated that, so far ihree-quarters of the money subscribed had been sent to Britain, and the meeting unammoush resolved that in future all donations should be in aid of the Belgians, unless specially ear-marked otherwise by the donors. It decided to divide Asliburton County into districts and canvass'the whole energetically, with a view to bringing the fnnd up to £5000 within a month. , , On Friday the County Conned had voted £250 as a first instalment towards the fund, but the meeting expressed itself as dissatisfied with tins, and with only one dissentient (the county chairman), carried a resolution askiu" 1 tho council to give £2000 as its next Instalment. A collection was taken up in tho room, and a sum or £575 secured before the meeting closed.