New Zealand.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 30 October 1914, Page 5

New Zealand.

BELGIAN RELIEF FUND. ■ By Telegraph.—Per Press Association. Wanganui, October 28. The citizens' committee to-day discuu- i ed the question of whether the amount., raised for the Belgian Food Fund should,-, ■ be sent to England in cash or in kind. It was decided to send tile money. ,] VALUABLE RELIEF WORK. Hamilton, Last Night, The proposal emanating from Mr F. E. Smith, ex-president of the WaikatoV Winter Show, to forward to the distress I eil Belgians between fifty and a hundred "',lj thousand rabbits ha 3 found favour with ' the Government, who are taking steps to ' carry out the suggestion. The whole of the Waikato is .being organised for t> rabbit trapping campaign. STRATFORD PATRIOTIC FUND. The executive of the Stratford Pat- ,0 riotic Fund held a meeting on Wedne#-, 'i day )iigOi,t :it which it was decided to forward to the Defence Department £BOO .'*,j cut of rbe balance of approximately '«1 £10(10 which was collected for the fiffht- i ing fund. The remaining balance is to he placed in trust in the Post Office Ss.v- "j irigs Bank (o wait the course of events,J/ as it wns t.hougOit it might not he wlm"* f to finally dispose of the whole »um it e this juncture. It must not be forgotten,-J JiOH'evcr. that the British and Re)ifi*n . * Poor Relief Fund, which is now open., quite a distinct .matter, and it is highly .desirable that tihe greatest liberal it/ ' Sihown in the. contributions to thi» fund. I *'-* An enormojs sum of money will be TC-ttJj quired to at all appreciably relieve tbbnj fearful distress which tlie present horrid.jffl war has caused throughout Europe, there arc many ways in which we who.Jjj| .ore so much more happily situated, m#V, gS Mith scarcely any self-denial help our?sJ Buffering brethren in tttuss mwft-diHtreA&iS sed countries whioli have suffered at tkgjw land-s of the ruthless German invader.-^aj