N.Z. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3138, 17 July 1917, Page 5

N.Z. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

Gift tobacco fund

WAR CELEBRITIES ASSIST

, The manufacturers of Havelock Tobaoco recently produced a sot of war. celebrities drawn by Mr. Bowring, niid a copy of a 6et of.tllom was sent to wfch of the celebrities in question.. A Spare copy was included in ..each est, and a request made for tho signatures' of. the. recipients on the understanding that tho autographed portrait would be-'sold for the benefit of the' New Zealand Expeditionary Force Gift Tobacco. Fund. Up to tho present four replies liave been received, 'namolf, from. Admiral Sir John Jellicoo, David Bcatty, Field Marshal Lord' French; and Lieu-tenant-General .Sir W. E. Birdwi»od. In each caso the request made was acceded to'. , General Bfrawood, in the eourso of his reply, reinarked: • "I need hardly say with what ' pleasure I return tho sparo copy of myself, with my autograph on it, and I ■ should be grateful if you would kindly devoto any funds whioh may ee obtained from the proceeds of the sale of the same to 'the aid of the New Zealand Expeditionary, FOroe Gift Tobacco Fund,, to which. I Heartily wish all' possible success. I know, well how much the results of suclv • funds aro appreciated by our men, for whom none can do enough in return for all their magnificent and self-sacrificing work in all tho hard lighting they, have been through." At the Hawera Show the autographed /portrait of Field-Marshal Lord French was sold and re-sold at auction with tlio result' that the following contributions ,to the Tobacco Fund wero realised:— At s. d.<J. C. Glenn 15 0 0 iW. B. White 5 0 0 p. Young 1, 0 0 J. A. Duffill 1 0 0 H- M'Leod 10 0 0. Williams 1 0 0 CMiss Beilly I. 0 5 0 *0. Hobbs 1 0.0 Jl. Glenn 0 10 0 'F. J. H. Nancarrow ....; 1 0 0 C.. Hawken - 5 0 0 •— Gillies 2 0 0 'J. Goodwin 5 0 0 A. Wills 0 5 0 !A. F. Jonos 0 5 0 ■J. D. Johnson 0 5 0 ITim Taylor— 0 10 0 G. Laurent 1 0 0 !A. E. Death 0 10 0 3?. Cooper ..' 0 10 0 B. Combridge *"0 10 0 B. Gibson ; 010 0 It. J. Linn 0 5 0 .31. Campbell 0 s<o P. E. Cressy :..t 0 2 6 Anonymous 10 0 0 Anonymous B 0 0 'A. Stitchbury 10 0 It. W. Dalton 2 0 0

.£62 13 0 Other proceeds to follow—details as Soon as names available.