’QUAKE RELIEF MOUNTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 712, 11 July 1929, Page 16

’QUAKE RELIEF MOUNTS

MAYOR’S FUND NOW £9,464 ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS The Mayor of Auckland aclout ledges the following additional co ,' tributions to his fund for the ret of distress caused by the recer earthquake: Previously acknowledged *• * Mt. Eden Methodist Church *’i? I - Mt. Eden Moth. Sunday Schl* i l of Friendship Lodge 1 Employees AuckV Sandal* *Co 3 - Stan F. M. King and Co. Ltd i - Ponsonby Bowling Club . . ' - - Blockcake and Shop Staff ° a Stormonts, Ltd * . Berlei (X.Z.). Ltd. .. .*.* *' * Smith and Brown, Ltd. .. ” lK ! Employees Hellaby, Ltd. (fur- 0 ther contribution* . . , . Drury and Runoiman children \\\ St. Andrew’s Church. Epsom JStaff Walter Buchanan, Ltd. 19 5 : Total ii~-

SUCCESSFUL BENEFIT SOCIAL

FOR EARTHQUAKE FUND St. Benedict's Hall presented a gay and animated scene last evening when some 250 couples attended the benefit social promoted by the West Coasters’ Association on behalf of the Earthquake Relief Fund. The function proved highly succes?. ful and enjoyable, the make-yourse::. at-home spirit of the Coasters being:; evidence. Dancing under the direction ol Messrs. J. Thurlotv and H. Montgomery to the accompaniment of sparklia; music provided by Morrow’s Orchestr was kept going with full swing, who, upstairs non-dancers indulged in car l playing. Mr. F. Schramm, president of th< association, referred to the great have wrought on the Coast by the earl', quake and subsequent flood, remark:, that “TVe Coasters in Auckland bar no conception of the enormity of the destruction.” Mr. Schramm thank: the orchestra for its voluntary service, and also all other sympathetic helper A flag collection taken up in the hi. resulted in the sum of £5 Is heir raised. It is estimated that £ 50 will be avail, able for the relief fund from the effon, PAPATOETOE'S EFFORT Further donations to the Papatoeto? Town Board’s earthquake distress relief fund are as under: — , Previously acknowledged .. .. °7B IS L St. .John’s I’resbyterian Church, Papatoetoe (on account) . SO 0 Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Xichojson 2 f h. J. Wills 2 0* J. Daisley i i o Waldo Smith 11" “Old Joe” .... 100 X.Z. Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, . _ Otahuhu branch 10 0 Total £l5B 7 J