SAILORS' COMFORTS FUND

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2635, 4 December 1915, Page 11

SAILORS' COMFORTS FUND

♦ — The Navy 1 League Ladies' Emergency Committee in London is presided over by Lord Charles Beresford, and there are over: SOO voluntary helpers working early and late. Miss Balfour, Mrs. Winston Churchill, 1 Lady Beatty, and the wives of a number;of : other influential naval officers", are' on -the executive. ; In.nine months ended May over 400,000 warm-gar-ments had been issued to the men .in the Fleet, and a huge number of other presents sent. Tobacco and other comforts are purchased free of duty and inter- ' mediate profits; and every shilling'donaxed to the Navy League Comforts Fund is thereby made to go as far as possible, i During the past three weeks the local branch of the Navy League has remitted £140 to headquarters. . The Ladies' Emergency Committee is to expend this 1 (and other amounts,from New Zealand branches) in tlie' purchase of Christmas gifts for the bluejackets and the fisher.liien on the mine-sweepers operating in the North Sea, the Mediterranean, and elsewhere. There are a large number of brave fellows to be Temembered, and further donations are urgently required, especially in view of the anticipated severity of -the winter. . Contributions, already acknowledged/ =£135 lis. Additional amounts ' ; .have been Teceived from Messrs. Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co., ,£5 55.; Miss Freeman, 7s. fid.; H: W. Lawrence (Johnsonrille),. 10s, fid.; "A.5.," Is.; Mrs. Spencer: Medley, . 5.=.; Terrace School, £2 lis. lOd. TotaL <£115 «s. lOd. ; V