FUNDS FOR COMFORTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2581, 1 October 1915, Page 2

FUNDS FOR COMFORTS

FOR SICK AND WOUNDED. ! A : little time ago the Minister of Defence sent £500 to Malta for comforts for sick, and wounded New Zealanders.. ;; The £500 was made up by the following . contributionsTe Awalnutu Defence Committee, £250; Nelson Patriotic Defence Fund, £100; Reefton Patriotic Fund, £50; Vacuum Oil Company (Wellington). £100. These amounts nave been taken out of the funds subscribed, said the Minister yesterday. The funds, he added, would not last for .ever, and if there were other societies which would like to contribute, he would be onlj; too glad to pay .it over to the. Secretary for Internal Affairs for the sick and woundod New Zealanders at Malta and Egypt, or elsewhere. ~ It was very difficult, said the Minister, to say liow_ much had been sent to England from New Zealand for the sick and wounded, as. people were sending direct to the High Commissioner, of which no record was held here. Wo had sent to the High Commissioner from the Treasury between May 28 and September 14 the sum of £3746 10s. for comforts, etc. , .There had also beensent £150 for tobacco, papers,' etc. The contributors "of these amounts were as followAVanganui. Citizens' ■ Comruittee^£66o; : Hon. & J.Yand Mrs. and Miss E. -L; Johnston, £250; Five. Little' Girls at Te Horo, £7; "Dannevirke Evening News," £8; "Otago Daily Times" Collections, '£2478 12s. 6d.; Winton Patriotic Fund, £25; Mabri' scholars of ■ Matakaria' Island, 17s. 6d. ; Wyndhani Patriotic Tund, £100; Masterton Poor of Great Britain and Belgium 1 Relief Fund, £65 ; Goraldine Home, and Empiro League, £10; Hastings Red Cross Workers, £100; Hon. John Fisher, £42: total, £3746 10s. . . ' For the wounded men in Egypt and Malta the donations were as follow:— Hon. C. J..'and Mrs. and Miss E. L. Johnston, £450; Hon. , James Allen, £25; Kia Toa Hookey Club (Dannevirke),'; £120 lOs.'; p A. W. FullertonSmith; £20; Lawrence Patriotic Committee; £14 10s. 6d. : total, £630 os. 6d.