ALLIES' TEA AND PATRIOTIC MEETING

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2787, 3 June 1916, Page 13

ALLIES' TEA AND PATRIOTIC MEETING

-t'ho Women's Christian Temperance | Union of New Zealand lias set out to raise ,£3OOO for a Soldiers' Fund to be (listributod through, the Y.M.C.A. Tho New Zealand Alliance is combining with their co-workers and giving the net proceedsof their Dominion Congress public functions this year to that fund, and are being most heartily supported by very many of tho churches iu the city. An Allies' tea. is to bo held in the Town Hall on Tuesday next at 5.45 p.m. Ticbets Is. each. This is to bo followed by a patriotic meeting commencing at 7.45 p.m., which is to bo presided over by His Worship the. Mayor. Patriotic resolutions will be submitted to the meeting on the proposition of Mr. A. S. Adams, barrister, Dunedin, and Rev. P. S. Smallfield, Church of England minister, Auckland; Mrs. A. E. Atkinson, of this city, and Mr. Wesley Spragg, of Auckland; tho third being proposed and seconded by the Eev. E. S. Gray, of Dunedin, and the Rev. John Paterson, M.A., of Ch-ristcliurch. Patriotic , songs will be rendered by Mts. Kennedy, Miss Brittain, and Sergeant-Major Allwright, Mr.. Holloway being the accompanist. A collection will be tnken up for the Fund. Tho meeting is timed to close at 9.30, when a free supper will be provided for all soldiers in uuiform. who respond to the invitation which is "being extended to all who arc on leave that night. Tho tickets are said to be selling well for tho tea, and there is good promise for a successful gathering.