HELPING OUR WOUNDED

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 296, 24 May 1915, Page 4

HELPING OUR WOUNDED

OVER £101)0 FKOM TARANAKI.. NEWS FUND EXCEEDS £3OO. STRERT COLLECTION IN NEW » J 'LY .MOUTH. A PROFITABLE DAY. >• The sum of £1220 Os .'1(1 had heett contributed in Taranaki towards the «>iui])iiiciit of the New Zealand hospital ship up to yesterday. In enclosing a cheque for £5, 11 subscriber from Pungarehu Kays:—"l trust the appeal will meet with a ready response from many"; allot,her from Raliotu says; *1 hope you will have a liberal and' ready response to your call for funds, for I am sure the hospital ship will fill a great want, and it will show our boys that we are still ready to help,"'while a further subscriber intimates his determination to give to the cause aU,#afc Ihe is receiving for his produce oversD&.~ « above what ho would" receive normalfct. These sentiments express feelings whiai should induce everyone in Taranaki wh<> has not already done so to answer the appeal with a contribution, for, while Taranaki,has done well, a week remains for the people to- show that' they can do vcrv liuicli bettor. The street collection in New Plymouth on Saturday produced the excellwt sum of £2lO, while there are some more boxes, to come. At n patriotic meeting at Opunake, on Friday night £O9 14s fid was subscribed; to which Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, M.P., added n cheque for £IOO. The Mayor (Mr; J. K. Wilson) hits received a cheque for £SO from the Inglewood patriotic fund. The Bell Block Dairy Company made a handsome donation on Saturday to the News fund. On the outbreak of war the shareholder* decided to give half per cent, of thnir drafts towards the patriotic funds, and on Saturday the directors met and decided that half the total of £Bl 10s should fro to the hospital ship fund and half to the- Belgian relief fund, which, will benefit by £4O l.'is each. The company's liberality is to be commended. The New Plymouth (Jolt Club will donate the-entrance fees fi'.r the match on Saturday, 18s, to Ihn Daily News Fund, and will also give the fees next Saturday to the name fund. The Witiora Club decided to take similar action, but the weather on Saturday prevented the match taking place. The fees next Saturday will, however, be devoted to the, fund. As a result of the men's service in St. Mary's Church yesterday . J afternoon the Hospital Ship Fund will benefit to the extent of over £5. The details of the amounts collected in Taranaki up to the present nre, as far as we have ascertained, as follows: £ s. d. Daily News Fund 324 14 0 Stratford Fund 224 13 0 New Plymouth street collection 210 0 0 Opunake Fund 101) 14 (I Herald Fpnd 105 0 !) Inglewood Fund r>o 0 0 Hawera Star "Fund 42 0 *> Kltham Fund 7 0 0 Sunday subscriptions 518 i) (;■

Total £1229 6 3 < THE STREET COLLECTION'. < The New Plymouth branch of the St. John Ambulance Association made their big effort on Saturday, and the very satisfactory sum of £2lO was secured, with several further boxes yet to come in. From an early hour on Saturday a numerous band of ladies were to be seen busily engaged in various parts of the town soliciting tlio assistance of every passer-by, in fact one could go very few steps without meeting one of th" young ladies with the symbolical red cross upon her arm. The heavy rain which fell at intervals in no way deterred them, and they would not be denied, as indicated by the result. Unfortunately the rain of the day took the form of a tropical downpour in the evening, and the Citizens' Band, which had offered their services in aid of the cause, wa» unable to carry out this part of thu programme. The rain also kept many > people indoors, and the collection was therefore abandoned at a much earlier hour than waß originally intended. Under these circumstances, the result achieved was the more meritorious. The local branch of the St. John Ambulance Association and those who assisted with the collection are to be congratulated on the success which attended the collection. The. lady collectors were:—Mesdames Wilson (Mayoress), E. Dockrill, F. Messenger, Austin, Duff, Johnston, and Waugh; Misses (i. Bewley, Houston, Devcnish, C. Mackay, Roy, E. Grant, J. Home, R, Whitton, Carters, Ooldwater, Wade, Ilirst (2), K. Campbell, Mona Cork ill, Billiard, Bradbury, 0. Ambury, Peach, Jackson, Monteath, Brewster, Leatham, W. Webster, Woodman, Watterson, Wilson (2), and Sister Hancock, Nurse Muir, and Nurse Cojitts. DAILY NEWS FUND.

£ s. d. Amount previously acknowledgod ; 256 8 6 Messrs ,T. P. Hardware Co. .. 22 0 Mrs, P. J. Flannagan 1 1 0 Mr. P. J. Flannagan j i o (ieo. Beatty 0 10 8 H. McMurray 5 0 0 Brixton 1 q 0 S. Bracegirdlo 2 0 0 "• S ' ' 110 Miss Greenwood (Fitzroy ... 050 J. Hanson (Koru) 010 0 A. Wyatt 2 0 0 S. S. G. (Rahotu) 2 0 0 Mr, Layard (Pungnreliu) 10 0 ■las. Kutherford (Pungarehu) 5 0 0 •!: S T - 1 0 0 K - L 1 0 0 801 l Block iuh-y Co 40 15. 0 J. 11. Wakely 10 0 ' T «tal £324 14 0 ACTIVITY ELSEWHERE.

GREAT RESPONSE IN AUCKLAND. s ' Auckland, Last Night. A campaign to raise funds for the equipment of the -hospital ship was inaugurated at a public meeting on Saturday night, when there were scenes of great enthusiasm. "The Governor and the Countess of Liverpool were present, and the Governor, in a stirring speech, explained the purposes of the fund and expressed his belief that the people of the Dominion in this matter, whMi affected almost all of then; per-omthv would give another notable example r-v their generosity and patriotism. Jn speaking of the influence of the war on Imperial sentiment, His Excellency declared that the result of the Ptnteifn \v6uld be to bind the Empire l-v'etr, V j ;ll indissoluble bonds. He wiia cheered to ' the echo. Over £IOOO wan auiwrllici at the meeting, Mid the xsew £cfti&nu Herald fund, opened on JM®»y morning, already carries over twelve hundred pounds.