AUSTRALIAN MEAT FOR BELGIUM

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2409, 15 March 1915, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN MEAT FOR BELGIUM

TOTAL TO DATE, £184,000. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Sydney, March 13.' . Since the recent public meeting £1000 monthly has: been promised to the Belgian Fund, exclusive of £7000 in straight-out donations. Organised collections are proceeding. The Belgian Consul has cabled , Sii Timothy Coghlan a further £40,000, including £23,357 Government subsidy. The total remitted is £184,000; Concerning the uneasiness in the public mind regarding the destination of subscriptions the Consul stated that the money goes direct to the Belgian Ambassador in London. He has been amply assured that_ tho money is strictly used for tho relief of the Belgians in Belgium. The New South Wales Executive Com- ; mittee has asked the Consulate amalga- • mate his fund with the National Fund and thus avoid confusion. AN ACRE FOR CHARITY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) | Adelaide, March 13. ; The Local Government Association ! suggests that every farmer should sov, an acre of wheat for Belgium, i "A Foxton Friend" has handed Mr Winter Hall; of the Plimmer-Hall Com- ' cdy 'Company, the sum of £2, to b« given to the Belgian Fund through the r medium of tho company, as evidence > of his appreciation of the effort the i company is making to raise funds in a I big way.