BRITISH RED CROSS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 252, 12 July 1918, Page 5

BRITISH RED CROSS

ELEVEN MILLIONS TO DATE. ■In connection with the mbWram punlished on Wednesday to the effect that so far ,£11,000,000 lmd been raised for British E«d Cross work, it is interesting to note how that amount has been made «p._ The Insi bulnnce-sheet. which has armed in Wellington, gives figures which, wmlo coinciding with tlio cablegram, show tho extent to which the contributions for Red Cross work uro increasing each year Up till October 31, 1915, the sura of ( .11,912,1)95 had been subscribed to llio funds of the British Red Cross, uu amount which was considered prodigious at tho time. During tlio succeeclJng year, however, the enormous amount of .£'3,064,232 was raised. and again the result was considered to be an extra'ordinary achievement. For the year ended October 31. 1917, t £3.47(,5C3 was raised—another half-million jump. These figures added together make the enormous total of J&5.J.51,790. The fact that now, or rather at tlm end of .Tune, the soerety states that Sll.OOfl.MO has boon railed, allows for some ,C2,ii(X),ooo hnving been raised i in tho eight months of the current year j which have exnired. which indicates that I the amount likely to be subscribed for tho whole of tho sociof.v's year will l»e somewhere in tho vicinity of .£3,750,000.