UNION JACK REALISES £8l7.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 14 September 1915, Page 5

UNION JACK REALISES £Bl7.

FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND.

After the laying of the foundationstone at the Taihapc Freezing Works yesterday afternon, great enthusiasm centred around Mr. J. G. Oldham, of the New Zealand Loaan and Mercantile Agency, Co., Ltd., who kindly under-

took the sale of a Union Jack in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, which had been presented for the purpose by Mr. D. Neagle. The first bid was £IOO from Mr. Joe Whenuaroa, seconded by Mr. R. W. Smith, M.P., by another £IOO. Other bids were;—Durrant £5. J. Garmonsway £3, J. Webb £5, Dr. Barnett £5, A. E. Barnes £5, H. De Latour £5, W. Doole £5, G. H. Brown £5. P. Batley £lO, Poulson £lO, Lillbum £lO, W. Dixon £lO, Strachen £lO, H. W. Smith £5, H. Smith £5, Fanning £lO, Hintz £5, Bartosh £5, J. McKay £5, IT. Bell £55, R. Broderick £5, Britland £5. A. L.' Arrowsmith £5, W. and D. J. McLennan £5, Hintz £5, Nelson Winiafa £5, Gerald Griffin £lO, G. Wrightson £5. J. Webb £5, John O’Keefe £lO, Mrs. James £5, R. T. Batley £25, Pine, senr, £5, J. McCarten £SO, D. Wilkie £SO, D. Neagle £5, R. J. Loughnan £5, R. Wilkie £5, J. Grlehrist £5, Hintz £5, J. Batley £lO, J. Overton £lO, J. Doncvan £5, H. Gowdy £5, J. Mikkleson £5, Wilson and Co. £lO, T. Mann £5, Jacobsen £5, R. Siddells £5, S. Parsons Ellson £l, Laidley £l, Punch Pine Hart £l. Mrs. O’Dea £l, A. W. Bicknell £5, M. O ’Dea £l, McEwan £l, Miss Whenuaroa £l, E. Bisop £3, Miss Doole £l, Zohs £5, H. Smith £5, D. McDonaM £5, J. Collins £5, E. H. Brown £5, J. Buick £5, D. Brown £5, D. Scott £lO, J. Dennisson £1 10/,'• R. Currie £5, R. Campbell £5, R. Richardson £5, Swanson £3, Timbs £3, G. Monkley £l, Mrs. J. Downing £l, Hintz £5, D. Shaw £5, H. D. Bennett £5, B. Smith £2, S. Beecham £l, Preston 10/, G. H. Browo£l, Hopkins £2, Jergens, junr. £l, Carr £l, G. S. Davies £l, C. J. Wilson £2, H. H. Scott £l, E. B. Jennings £l, Hintz £5, J. Anderson £l, R, Sullivan £l, B. Steedman £l, A. MeColl £l, H. F. Jergens £l,John MeColl £l. W. Bremner £l, H. O’Callaghan £25, Da via £l, J. O’Keefe £2, S. W. Brown £l, W. J. Kuhtze £l, Collinson and Gifford £l y Houghton £l, A. G. Bickneß! £lO, Joe Whenuaroa (final purchaser) £3l, total £Bl7 1/.

The donors of bids will have the right to earmark the amount of their donations for any candidate they would have to support for the Carnival Competition, and voting scrips will be issued by the Organising Secretary (Mr. J. A. Walsh) on application. Donors are asked to forward the amount of their bids to the treasurer (Mr. A. E. Wakeman) of the Organise ing Secretary,