BELGIAN RELIEF FUND

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2749, 18 April 1916, Page 3

BELGIAN RELIEF FUND

AN INTERESTING STATEMENT. Tlio following is a statement of moneys dealt with by the lion. C. J. Johnston, Consuil-Generul for Belgium nt Wellington, ill linnd nt nnd received since March 11, 1015, up to March .'II, 10IC: — Cash in • hand at Dominion , Office, March 11, 1015 88 14 8 Moneys received 6ince up to March HI, 1916, acknowledged i in detail in the Dominion ... 7557 C 7 Subscription received from' Eeiiding 50 0 0 .£7696 1 3 Remitted by Consul-General by cablegram to Belgian Minister, London, per N.Z. Government, May 7, 1915 3272 0 i Remitted May 15, 1915, to High . Commissioner, London, through N.Z. Government,- for special purpose, at request of doners: Subscription from Feilding, ■£50; Dominion list, ,£57 10s. 107 10 0 Paid to Under-Secretary of Internal Affairs, to make up JiaOOO per month required to l)o subscri 's nri\a£e persons to gain the Government subsidy of J25000, granted since April 1, 1915, tho total amount being remitted monthly by the Government to the High Commissioner in London, to be handed to the approved committee set up , for dealing with the relief I of Belgians in Belgium, August 10, 1915 900 0 0 October 22, 1915 ' : 900 0 0 December 7, 1915 3CO .0 0 March 28, 1916 : 2000 0 0 Cash in hand at Dominion Office, March 31, 1916 216 10 11 £7696 1 8 Messrs. Watkins, Hull, and Wheeler,public accountants, certify that they have examined tho above statement, and ooiii pa red it. with' the published subscription list in the Dominion newspaper, and certify that the various amounts, as detailed, have !>een handed to the New 7iealand Government to be remitted to London for the relief of Belgians in Belgium. ' Also, t during the same period 37 coses of clothing were received and dispatched to the Belgian Ambassador, London, the do/.ors being as follow:—Marlon Workers. 2 cases; Mrs. G. C. Wilford. 1 case; Belgian Sewing Guild. Eltham, 9 cases; *Z.C.," 1 case; Mrs. Kennedy, Jlaranui, 8 cases; District Hiirli .School, Feilding, 1 case; Greytown Committee, 2.cases; Inglewood Patriotic League, i cases; Mrs. Snelson, Palmerston North, 8 cases; Ladies of Mnxwelltown. 1 case; children of Congregational Sunday School, Palmerston North, 1 case; Dorcas Society, Pal-merston-North, 2 cases; Women's Patriotic Committee,' New Plymouth, 1. case; from Wnitara, 1 case; Waipawa residents, 1 case; total, 37 cases.