CARNIVAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2508, 8 July 1915, Page 6

CARNIVAL ITEMS

AN INTERESTING RAFFLE. : The period of raffles has not yet exhausted itself. One 'that is still open to. the public, consists of a number of valuable household articles in. metal, which have been made in the Wellington Gas Company's_ workshops by the men in their own time for the benefit of tlie St. Jolm Ambulance Association. The articles consist of a valuable copper fender (a feature of whidh is a metal plaque! representing tlife stand made by the last gun of Battery L at Mons, cleverly,modelled from a picture by Mr. H. Coleman), a coal scuttle, a coffee pot, two copper ivater'jugs, and two copper kettles. There is only one prize—the holder of the lucky, (ticket •gets;the lot—for one shilling. ■ JOTTINGS. The following art unions promoted by the Tramway Boys are open until July 10: —£1000 gold nugget, £500 motor-car, monster art union,' piano, silver tea and coffee' service and the £5 gold nugget. The secretary is Mr. C. H. Ballard, box 85, Wellington. , The Mayor has received the sum of £40 as a first instalment of the proceeds of the art' union of Sir. H. W. Kirkwood's paintings,, on behalf , of the Belgian Fund. - 1 A meeting of the. general executive of the Patriotic Society is to be held this,evening.. | At a meeting of the Lower Hutt Committee of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, held last evening, tho treasurer, Mr. W. B. Nicholson, reported,'that the total amount collected ■ locally' / (including £20 fortke Hospital Ship and £5 for. the Anaesthetic Fund) was £2895. " The Tramway Boys' Committee V reports excellent business 'with. the 1 salo of art union tickets in aid of the fund for the Wounded Soldiers.. Yesterdav no fewer tha'n 350. applications lor tickets were reported frpm the country districts/, - ■