RED CROSS APPEAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2599, 22 October 1915, Page 6

RED CROSS APPEAL

THE STREET COLLECTION j NEARLY £700 RAISED 'L'lie response) of the people of Wellington to Lord Lansdowne's appeal to the Umpire for funds for the lied Cross organisation was' highly satisfactory. Tlio street collections, conducted by the local branch of tlio St. John Ambulance Association, realised nearly £500, which, with cheques received by the Mayor, brought tile total up to £692 7s. -Id. All day long relays of women and girls posted themselves at likely corners, and there brandished collection boxes in front of every person showing even the luost modest appearance of prosperity. Every man did not pay every time, but the man who escaped paying at some time or other, if such a man there were, must have had very well-tied purse-strings and a heart of stone. Other collectors, having made loot upon their own and their friends' gardens, sold flowers for the fund. So it happened that many sober-minded folk decked themselves for the day with festivo posies. The effort was not desperate evon to tlio collectors, and the contributors will scarce notice the sliortago iu tlioir change to-day, but the result is by no means a trifle.

TOTALS OF STATIONS. The totals collected at the various stations were: — £ s. d. 1. Lambton Station (Mrs. Chamberlain) 8 10 10J 2. Government Buildings (Mrs. Simm) 37 15 2 3. Post OJlice and Wharves / (Mrs. A. H. Waters) ... 107 0 5J 4. Kelburn Avenue (Mrs. A. A. Corrigan) 90 14 3} 5. lCirkcaldie's (Mrs. Wallace) 49 19 7 6. Stewart, Dawson (Mrs. Preston) 40 0 10 7. Boulcott St. comer (Mesdames Pearson and Hist) 35 3 1J 8. Winder's Comer (Miss Williams) 2S 6 1 9. Veitch and Allan's (Sirs. Wannacott) 14 1 .0 10. Courtenay Place (Mrs. Brownrigg) '. 41 14 8 11. Newtown (Mesdamcs' Ramsay and Osborn) ... 11 1 7 Ticture Theatres 0 13 3J Sales sweets and flowers at Town Hall 0 16 4} Sale of flowers by Lady Ward and Mrs; Nathan 26 10 9 Two cheques to the Mayor of £100 each .200 0 0 £692 7 7

The Mayor of Lower Hutt advised last evening that the total amount which had been received as the result of tho Red Cross effort at the Hutt was £45, with more to comc. The ladies' collections at the railway station realised £20 9s. 6d. DUNEDIN'S EFFORT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, October 21. Tlie Bed Cross stveet collection realised ,£323 lor Dunedin, plus .£•! lGs. . from cakes sold. Collections were held throughout Otago.