Fund for our Sick and Wounded Soldiers.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 2 July 1915, Page 2

Fund for our Sick and Wounded Soldiers.

The Ladies Relief Committee will make a house to house canvas commencing July stli. They are only asking 3d a week and to make it a permanent thing until tlie war is over. This will be called for monthly. An offer has been made by one who sympathises with tlie cause, and appreciates the efforts of the l ilies, to give a subsidy of 10s for every £1 collected by them during the month of July. The ladies are holding a social in the Miner’s Hall on Monday July 19th, tickets Is. Every ticket bought will carry tliis subsidy, so that everyone who buys a ticket is giving Is fid to the fund. A school girl’s social will be held the following week and a patriotic concert in the Kings Hall at the cud of tlie month. Date given later. This should add a’fair amount to the Fund, which is the most deserving yet. put before us. We c in never forget the hundreds of nur finest young men who are giv-

ing their lives for us and our liberty ; hut it is those who are returning wounded whom we working for now.

The committee which did such good work for the Belgian Relief Fund remains the sam , with one exception, the ■ members being Mesd.imas Starr, Soper, Herd, Kayll, Wright, Crowder, J. Wilson, E voles, Shaw, Porter, Wear, Jolley, Maxwell, Curly on, riiomas, and T. Fraser, the last eight being the canvassing committee. Acting oil advice received by Mr J. P. Bailey from the Mayor of Auckland the ladies are working through tlie Town Board. No subsidy will be given on amounts collected by anyone outside of tlie committee.