KING COUNTRY FIRE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 168, 5 April 1918, Page 6

KING COUNTRY FIRE

AMOUNT REQUIRED FOR RELIEF, £10,000 AUCKLAND'S FINE RESPONSE. The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) has rccoived the following telegram from Mr. W. J. Barry, Mayor of Ohalmne, and chairman of the Bush Fire Relief' Committee: — Total amount required to make it barely possible for sufferers to carry ok £10,000, of .which approximately £7000 has been subJ scribed. Suggest that if £3000 is found collections may be stopped. Presume you will communicate with other mayors, as indicated by you. On receipt of tho abefre message Mr. Luke communicated with 'tho mayors of the other three centres. From Mr. Gunson (Mayor of Auckland) he reeoivod the following reply:— Auckland's contribution? to Raetihi fund totals £2800. Have' closed lists under agreement with Ohakuue. Committee taking no further action. No replies had been received from. Christclmrch or Dunedin yesterday afternoon. Tho Mayor stated that the subscriptions received in Wellington amounted to £Gl7 19s. 3d. Referring to the fino response from Auckland} Mr. Luke said, that the Auckland committee had done magnificently, and were quite justified jin closing down on the appeal. For isome reason or other subscriptions had come in very slowly in Wellington, and the position was such that they must necessarily continue with tho appeal until they had built up the shortage, and reached our quota, and he would like to take the opportunity of appealing to all sympathisers with the sufferers by the fire to send in their subscriptions to Clerk or himself at the earliest possible moment. The Wellington list is likely to be substantially augmented as the result of tho Now Zealand Natives' Association's Easter Egg Campaign, the result of which will be made known as soou as the accounts are settled. Further Lists. The additional subscriptions are as follow:—Members of Licensed Victuallers' Association, £109 195., as under: I'hil. Firth, J. M'Domiid, P. Griffin, R. Dwyer, j. MTarlaud, M. Muir, M.' Gleesou, J. Dwyer, F. M'Parlaml, eiich £5; A. R. Durrani, £5 'Ss.; W. Wallace, £3; P. Rogers, M. Ryau, Mrs. Whclan, Mrs. Pau'lsen, E. Page, L. O'Brien, J. Daley, each £2 25.; F. Oakes.-J. Lamb, D. Dalton, T. Kingston, J. Mason, M. J. O'Brien, Mrs. Green, J. Foley, T. Carrig, D. Buckley, J. Firth, Mrs. M'Guire, A. J. Munro, W. Hannalin, B. O. Englunde, Mrs. M'Donald, Mrs. Sullivan, Mrs. O'Brien, each £2; C. Priest, H. Oban, Mrs. Holbrook, F. Dobson, J. Ellery, P. Perkins, each £1. Johnsonvillc Cooperative Society (proceeds of dance), £30 13s. Sd.; F. K. Kelling, £10; Knox Presbyterian Church (Lower Hutt), £3 6s. 10d.; E. Looser (per "Evening Post"), £1 Is.; H. Ardcii, 10s.; J. T. Canty, 10s.