CARDIFF NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 44, 22 June 1915, Page 6

CARDIFF NEWS.

The Patriotic committee met yesterday, when there were present: Messrs Belcher (chairman), Rogers, Stewart, Merchant. Contributions for the month were: Miss Wilcocks 2s Gel, Frit/. Crossley 4s, S. Rothwell ss, Mrs J. Stewart £l, Cecil Stewart 10s, T. Watkins 3s, W. Richards £2, J. Richards, sen 10s, Dairy Factory £22 Us) Mrs Merchant £5, G. A. MaVchant £l, J. ' lingers £2, Mrs Rogers £l, G. Rogers 10s, Miss Rogers 2s 6d, E. Bennett 10s, J. Belcher £l, Mrs Belcher 10s, The Misses Belcher 10s, A. Belcher 10s. Total £4O Is. Total to date £427 0s 2d. Of the monthTs contributions, it was resolved to forward £ls Is to the Government for Belgian relief, thus earning the £ for £ subsidy, and to place the balance, £25, in the Post Office Savings Bank for assistance to sick ahd wonndbd soldiers and their dependents and the dependants of those killed. ' If was resolved to 'pass a vote of Sympathy and cbndolence to Mr and Mrs Bl&fckStcfek aiid family on the 10.4 s of thfeir kbit afid brother, who gallantly gave his life iii the deleilce of the Empire, at the Dardanelles.

The matter of an entertainment in aid of the sick and wounded was discussed, ahd preliminary steps taken

Mr A. Coleman is to he asked to kindly audit the accounts whenever they ale presfe'hted to him from time to time.

The Ideal nifen Who JiaVe Pd fbr the front have started a system of evening di'ill, % local Territorial Mtgeant being instructor; hot a bad idea to fesedpe the “awkward equad” wheh they get to Trentham. • "LOOM I’bpdrts My that Harry Carley, one of Cardiff’s first volunteers, now tips the beam at 15 stone and was the first man to be picked for the New Zealand tug-of-war against the English Territorials. Advance Cardiff!