FAMOUS FUNDS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 276, 18 May 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

FAMOUS FUNDS.

The Br tisli Red Cross Fund of £6,(MUM) shares with the Prince of Wales' Fund the honour of hoi rig the biggest sum ever subscribed for rlinritv. Nothing indeed even remotely aj>proa liing it lias ever been achieved. The lie,-irest to it, in all probability, was the National Fund raLsed l during the Boer War. when sliuht.lv over two millions and a hall were raised. I During tho American Civil War. ' when the Lancashire operatives were starving for lack of cotton, nearly two ' milPons wer.<> collected for their rel'ef. a considerable proportion of which came from the northern States of America. ! In return the sturdy men of England's premie:' manufacturing country sent a j stirring ines-ane to President, Lincoln, h'didng lum L r, t on with the war." | The lirst Mansion Hou-e fund ever raised was in when £126,000 was I suh-:ribe<! to feed the peoph' of Pans after thf> siege: and in 1*97 o.l>ovo one million pounds were largely . through the name agency, for the Indian famine v'ctinis. [