PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3129, 6 July 1917, Page 2

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

THE "DOMINION" LISTS. CRIPPLED SOLDIERS' HOSTEL FUND. £s.d. Previously acknowledged 15 0 0 E.M.T. • ° 4 ° Total «5 4 0 CIFT TOBACCO FUND. S s. d. Previously acknowledged 218216 6 C.L.R. (monthly contribution) 0 5 0 Total £2183 1 6 BELCIAN RELIEF FUND. I ' " £ s. d. Previously' acknowledged 29,473 18 9. J.B.G. ...: 010 o 0.p.8. (monthly contribution) 0 10 0 Total £29,47418 9 WOUNDED SOLDIERS' FUND. £ s. d. Previously acknowledged 498 J 2 0.L.1!. (monthly contribution) 10 0 Total :■■ 499 9 2 SERBIAN FUND, £ s. d. Previously acknowledged' 395 5 6 AD 0 8 1 O.L.K. (monthly contribution) 0 10 ° Total • « J 7

Mrs. H. H. Beethum (president) and Mrs. AY. H. Cruickshank (secretary) or tho Masterton Ladies' Auxiliary of the Navy League, have received Irom the headquarters of tho league in London exceedingly handsome silver and blue enamel medals (in the shape of a Maltese cross), with appropriate inscriptions on rovcrso sides. Tho ribbon, which is of navy blue, attached to the medal, also carries a silver bar with tho words, ' l'or valuablo service."

A correspondent at Tariki (Tarauaki) writes to a Taranaki exchange :-"I have often read about grand records ot ditferent families during this dreadful war, but wo havo in our district a iainily pt which wo are very proud. I refer to Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hamblyn, of Croydon Road Five of their sons volunteered, and tho sixth was called up, leaving a boy of seventeen—the last—to assist his parents to work a large dairy farm, where the butter is made at home, and few people know what hard, constant work it is. One sou v»a.s reported missing after the Sonime.and now two more aro reported killed in action. The other three lira at tho front. Those left at homo are going on, doing the extra work, doing their bit as surely as tho bravo ones who willingly went to fight in the treat cause. If ever a family had a right to bo prood it is Mr. and Mrs. Hamblyn and their children. I can assure you the people about tho district aro very proud, and hold them up as tho example of real patriotism, and will never forget their names."

Miss Flora M.'Lean, of Woodville, has helped to solve the problem in regard to her mother's bakery business' by taking one of the delivery rounds, stales the Woodville "Examiner."