HUNTLY DISASTER RELIEF FUND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 102, 23 September 1914, Page 7

HUNTLY DISASTER RELIEF FUND.

' (To vhe Editor. Trades Hall, Wellington, IM/fl/M. ' Bir,—l* order to nVake ample proti»ioii for the dependents of those who 'loet tfceir liroa in the recent catastrophe 'at Huntlr, it wa4 decided at a repre'•eatatrr* meeting of labor men, held "i» Welliagtoi on September 17. to inaugurate a national fund to be known u the Hnntly Disaster Relief I'urid. To* angur# the tuccesa of this most 'wortky project, tile assistance of your valuable paper ij eought. it sias been dceidod that the headquarter* of the fuad ba in Wellington, from which the National Committee will, ac'ting npoa the nlvico of a representative Iccrl committee in Jluntly, administer assistance to all entitled to it. Already appeal# hav« been issued to Ministers' ! Associations, various churches, labor 'orgauiaationi, rasing eluhs, and all 'other Wie» that might assist in any way. The Committee foola certain tJia-t, ' despite tlie heavy donations made to the Patriotic Fund, t.he people of New Zealaad will liberally respond to assist the widows and orphans whose breadwinierj were «natched by death under 'suck tragic circnmstanoos. The following liars been appointed os a manage'meat eoramiltee of the fund:—A. H. Co»pei' (Wellington butchers), chairnuift; P. Com well (painters), treasurer; Messrs L. M. A. Hearden (Unifed Labor and J- Head (United Federation of Labor), joint secretaries; Messrs 11. 15. Holland, 3. Gordon, trustees; Messrs 'Larncy (shearers), 7*. Jr. nicker. '\\ r . Noot (tramways), (1. B!atberwick (carpenters), A. Ovosuery (drapers), nnd W. Waterworth (tailors, committee. 'Trusting thai your paper will give publicity to this appeal, and open a list on behalf of the above fund at voitr offioe.—yft arc, etc.. A. If. OOOPEII, ■Chairman, ' J. Xr. A. I!KAI!I>KK, ;l. 1114 AD. i3oi»t Secretaries