EARTHQUAKE RELIEF FUND

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1931, Page 6

EARTHQUAKE RELIEF FUND

£IO,OOO FROM AUSTRALIA

DESPITE HARD TIMES

(Australian Press Association.)

SYDNEY, April 1

I lie amount already raised in Australia on behalf of the New Zealand earthquake fund is approximately £B,OOO, with contributions still arriving from various quarters. Mr Schmitt (New Zealand Government Commissioner) who is keeping in touch with the fund here, regards this response as most satisfactory in view of the difficult times in Australia. He points out ; that the Lord Mayor’s fun.d in Sydney is at present in the neighbourhood of £2,300, of which £I,OOO has already been lodged with the Bank of New Zealand. Other contributions include six hundred and fifty pounds by the Victorian Branch oF the Now Zealand Association, £250 from the Manchester Unity Oddfellows Lodge. £IOO from the Australian Workers’ Union, £4,000 from the Melbourne “Argus” fund, £540 from the Brisbane “Courier” fund. Society folk in Sydney are still raising substantial amounts by dances,one of which is being field aboard the liner “Niouw Holland” on April 17. A well-known firm of bedding manufacturers are shipping twenty bedstead mattresses by the Mnraina tomorrow for the earthquake sufferers. Mr Schmitt is of opinion the Australian, collections and contributions will eventually reach £IO,OOO.

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