ROMANCES Of RELIEF FUNDS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 87, 24 September 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

ROMANCES Of RELIEF FUNDS.

KIND HEARTS ARE MORE THAX

CORONETS."'

There are none so generous as u<e poor. This truism was again strikingly illustrated by some of the contributions which have been 6ent to the yiieen's "Work for Women" Fund. An o!d lady of ninety-five travelled to London to deliver personally to Latfy Roxburghe the gut of a Jubilee sovereign, carefu !y wrapped up in tissue paper. Another donor was a blind old woman, who was led up by a Boy Scout to present the savings of many years. A soldier's fiancee sent her engagement ring with the following explanation : '"The boy who gave me this ring made me promise before he joined his regiment that if anything happened to him I was to give it away. He will never come back. With a wrench i send it to von, as his gift to the Queen's Fund." A poor woman sent a thick strand or glossy, bright brown hair to be sold tor the good of the cause. From Jamaica Plain an American girl sent a gold coin which she had worn since she end ed her visit to England. "It carries with it," she wrote, "my loyalty and the loyalty of many of my countrywomen to the people who speak our language and by whose best traditions we strive to live."

A lady in Wadhurst sent £2 25., obtained by selling 4Slb. of nuts from tier private garden to the villagers in the street. Two pin.no-removers v.ore engaged to move a piano for a concert. The job was worth ss. to the two men, and they gave the whole amonaf \o the Queen's Fund. Another 55., says the 'Times,' is a thank-offering from a mother whose daughter was given wo'k by the fund. A recruit sent in his full pay from the day he enlisted, because work found for his dependents had enabled him to go to the Front. Among other contributors are poets, composers, writers, musicians, and authors; one and a half million children made a collection for the fund. There is also the "100 miles of pennies" collected from every mile of ground.