HUIROA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 21, 29 April 1916, Page 2

HUIROA.

(From our own Correspondent). The recently-hold Belgian bazaar, for which preparations hail been going on for sdme considerable time, proved a groat success financially, despite ad-1 verse circumstances. We were very unfortunate in striking a day on which | ..patriotic functions were being held in ' (other places, and this presented many I jwho would otherwise hare been with us from being present, but r.hert '.'• [some consolation in the fact that the. [result attained is all the more creditjable, the amount raised being more !the result of locaj effort, and easily a j record one lor the district.

The Ladies' Sewing Guild set out, in the first place to raise a three figure amount, and later, believing m aiming high £2OO was tfite goal decided on. . The result as shown below was A net sum of well over £'lso, the secretary and treasurer of the Guild having already forwarded £152 10s through the Belgian Consul, whose acknowledgment is appended. The ladies are to be congratulated on the fine display of wares with which the various stalls were laden, the best compliment to their quality being the fact that nl'inosfc everything was sold during be afternoon and evening. The various stall-holders also are to be complimented on the energy and enthusiasm displayed, : and the resultant "brisk, bright and busy" air that prevailed the proceedings. Among such an energetic band of workers.it would bo invidious to specially mention any in |'.u'tieular, but a word of appreciation is due to the secretary of the Guild (Mrs W. Martin) on whose shoulders fell a heavy share of work and responsibility, and to the president and treasurer (.Mrs A. J. Ferrott) for the efiiciei.t manner in which their duties were carried out.

Following is a" statement of affairs in connection with the bazaar, names in parenthesis being of those in, charge : Receipts, goods sold by Guild, £2O ?s sd; stalls: Plain goods (Mesdiimes Meuli, Carmichael and Bocock), £23 !.- 2d ; fancy goods (Mesdam'es Rutherford land Wallace) £ll lis lid; sweet? (..Misses I. Perrott and M. doll), £3 % 3d; afternoon tea (Mesdames Darrall. Bej'iichamp, Watkin Muir, and Misses Hammond, C. Kidd, L. Bray, M B. Martin and C. Stanford), £3' Ss ; general produce (Mes!dames Kidd, Eagles and Bray, and {Miss Griffin), £4 17s 3d; marble Inr I (Mr W. Martin and Charlie and Berf Kidd), £3 7s 9d; prist office (MisVMoir, Master Jackie Martin, letter carrier), 13s 5d ; bran tub (Misses Perrott trv! M. Evans), 14s 9d; Christmas dee (Mesdames Stewart and Bcaven), £1 ,10s fijd; competitions: guessing age of ; doll (nurse), (Misses E. and G. Eagles). 5s 10d; naming soldier boy (doll) (Miss Evie Perrott), £1 6s 2d; naming, ; ,doll (Miss Jessie Beauchamp), 8s 2d; (guessing number pins in cushion (Miss [Vera Carmichael). ss; guessing nura ber of peas in brittle (Miss Hammond's • table centre), £1 7s: guessing weight 'of lamb and sale of lamb (Mr A. J. .Penott's), £2 15s Gd; hat trimming '(Mrs Stewart), 9s; candle burning [(Miss Stanford's cushion), £2 2si; door I (Mr R. B. Kidd), £7 3s; dance, £1 9s ! 6d; raffles (Mrs T. Anderson's carved • tray, won by Mr G. Rutherford, Hutron ; point lace tea cloth, won by Mr A. Eraser, Kuiroa, and embroidered cushion, won by Mrs Smitheram, HiUjroa, £35 12s 9d; Mrs W. Martin's {autograph supper cloth), won by Miss iCernhoefer, Toko). £ll 10s; auction [sales, £ll 8s 9d; after sales (stencil plates), 65.2.U1: final concert: door £-1 !7s; competitions, £2 7s 9d; song (Jackie Martin), 10s; found, Id. Subscrip[tions.—W. Bray £2 2s,' J. Kiippenberjger £1 Is, Jean Bocock ss, Betty Bocock ss, W. H. Wallace £l, W. B. I Martin £1 Is, H. B. Kidd £1 Is, J. Jones 10s, A. Fraser ss, A. J. Perrott ■£l. W. H. Bunning £1 Is, A. J. Ross 'ss, P. F. O'Connor 10s, H. O. G. Watkin .£l, W. Blair ss, G. A. Eagles £l, E. Hine £2 2s, G. Lorimer £3 3s, J. H. Bocock £1 Is. S, Beauchamp £l, Friend £l. "Wee Harry" 3s, G. Ford ss. Total £IBO 2s 2d. Expenditure.—Sewing Guild expenses and sundries', £33 12s 2d; credit balance, £152 10s. I From Wellington the following acknowledgment has been received: - j Belgian Consulate, Box 1493, I Wellington, N.Z., 7th April, 1916. j Mrs K. M. Martin, Hon. Sec. HuiJroa Ladies' Sewing Guild, Huiroa, j Stratford-.—Dear' Madam,—! beg to 'acknowledge receipt of your letter of 14th instant, enclosing draft for £JS2 110 s for the Belgian Relief Fund, being 'proceeds of bazaar h.eld at Huiroa. On j behalf of the Belgian Nation please 'convey my thanks to the members of .your Guild for their fchoughtfnlness and (generosity. The amount will be pubj Ticlv acknowledged in the "Dominion'' { newspaper.—! am, Madam, your ooetli'erit servant, A. HEKNE, Vice Consul.