PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 164, 16 March 1915, Page 4

PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

TAIHAPE AND DISTRICT

BELGIAN RELIEF FUND

The secretary of the Belgian and other relief funds in Taihape, Mr Murrell, hereunder publishes a further list of donations. By a casual analysis of the list a few cuts and features are presented which deserve a word of special notice, the first being £4 by the Taoroa Sunday School children. It is a very small place and the number of children limited, still material help to the poor suffering children of Belgium. In each list received it is noticeable that Mr W. McLennan has given a considerable amount of his time as an auctioneer to selling various gifts in kind that needed converting into cash. These are services which only men like Mr McLennan can render. Messrs Dalgety and Co. have also given free assistance in disposing of gift stock. But particularly noticeable is the monthly cheque from the Station employees at Ruanui. These men, from their weekly earnings have donated according to promise another £l6 10s. And, finally,there is the splendid example set to wealthy men by Mr J. F. Studholme, who is contributing £20 a month as long as the war lasts, with a minimum of £25. Following is the list to date:

Amounts already acknow- £ s. d. ldeged Lorca Sunday Schccl col204 15 8 loci ion Box 4 0 0 ;T .rs J. W. SLrudwick .... 5 0 Friend, Taihape 'Tccaeds c - gifts sold by Mr McLennan, pee of oka ice-: 1 4 3 Mrs Gcidcn Durrani, goods VIr G H. Brown, puli’ fowls, sold 3/6, resold twice 3/3, 17 0 3/ *• 9 9 Mr W. Mathie’s dog .... 12 6 Mr J. Donovan’s horde 2 8 0 Mr J. Greer's Field glasses Mr T. M’en iie’s children’s Iamb, sold to M(r Spooner 12/; resold to H. Scott, 10/, J. McCracken 10/, S. Cartier 10/, S. Reid 10/, W. McLennan 10/, S. Timbs 5/, J. Brown 5/, T. O’Dea 5/, J. Foss 5/, J. 10 0 Evans 13/ Proceeds of gifts sold at Ram Fair by Dalgkty and Cc. free of charge: Mr Geo. Wheeler’s stud Romney ram, purchased by donor for £6 G/, resold by him for £7 7/ (J. Me4 15 0 Hardy) Mr A. R. Fannin’s stud Romney Ram (pur13 13 0 chaser, R. T. Batley) ... Mr R. W. Smith’s Iamb, 7 12 3 sold for £2 12/ Master Rex Crawford’s ram 2 12 0 lamb, sold for 10/ Ruanui Station Hands, 10 per cent. Jan. and Feb. 10 0 wages Mr J. F. Studholme’s 2nd 16 10 0 monthly donation .... Amount collected at Wool20 0 0 shed dance, Ruanui .... 1 5 0 “Nemo” (pe(r Mr S. Powell) 6 3 £282 5 8 British and Belgian Fund 19 2 6 Local Relief Fund 179 12 11 Empire Defence Fund .. 808 18 11 Totaj £1,290 0 0