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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2416, 23 March 1915, Page 5

"Dear Mr. Plimmer.—l am sending you the cushions I Bpoke about for the Belgian Fund. If Miss Day will most kindly auotiou them I shall. bo most thankful to her. The only recommendation perhaps is that they are my own work, and I have weaved many thoughts in sympathy with tho Belgians' many sufferings and the heroic stand they made against overwhelming odds. We are coming on Monday night if convenient to auction them that night, but I leave it to Miss Day entirelv to do as she thinks host. Congratulating you both on yoilr noble effort in such a worthy cause, and wishing you great success, and with kind regards to yourself and Miss Day.—Yours sincerely, Ada Cope-Dowsing. Such was the text of a letter read by Miss Day,prior to the rise of the curtain on "Lady Windermere's Fan" at the Grand Opera House last evening. Very willingly and charmingly did Miss Day act the role of the auctioneer, and the result was that the first cushion realisec (when sold live times over) £11 10s., and the second (sold three times) £5 10s. -in all £17.

This evening Miss Day is to sell for the Fund a beautifully dressed Norwegian doll, which has been presented by Miss Phillips, of Wellington, and a. Belgian flag presented by the children of the Roseneath School.