The Floods in Hawke’s Bay
ENTHUSIASTIC PUBLIC MEETING AT WELLINGTON. [Per Press Association] Napieb, December 7. About £9OO has been collected, but at least L2OOO will be needed to meet requirements. A large number of boxes of clothing of all kinds, bread, tinned meats, &c., have been sent out to relieve tbe temporary wants of the people, but a great deal will have to be done to put the settlers on their feet again. A M nori rode to town this moruing and stated that 27 natives at Matahiwi were thoroughly destitute, as their stock and crops are destroyed, and, being in actual want, a cartload of food has been despatched. At Clive to day the work of burying tbe dead stock is busily proceeding. Wellington, December 7. At an enthusiastic meeting to-day arrangements were made for cauyassing the whole of the city for subscriptions in aid of the sufferers by the Hawke’s Bay floods. Over LIOO was subscribed in the room, the Mayor, Mr H. D. Bell, M.H.R., heading the list with a donation of L2O.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 136, 8 December 1893, Page 2
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