HELPING OUR WOUNDED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 301, 29 May 1915, Page 4

HELPING OUR WOUNDED.

GOVERNMENT RECEIVES OVER ' £9OOO. ; A LOCAL SPOUTING OFttSR. Moneys received 'by the Internal Affairs Department on account of the hospital ship fund now total £92 OS, says a press telegram from Wellington., 'iiie appeal to make the Daily News fund .€SJO is not meeting with the support. it deserves, for up till last llighfc t'io list only shows £40!) Os Gd. Onljj three more days remain, and if Taranaki is to play its part well in this deserving cause your contribution, small or large, is required at once. Mr. W. G. ICinenv, proprietor of the Koyal Hotel, New Plymouth, has made a sporting offer, lie is willing to donate £2O to our fund if twenty-lour others will do the same. He believes that there are that number in North Taranaki who can well afford £2O apiece ai)d that the fund is one that should appeal to their generosity. This would mean another .CoOOf and Air. Emi'ny is ot opinion that money could not 'lie given for a better purpose.

The Maheno, which is to bo the liospita] ship, is now at Duiiedin, .being refitted. A quantity of her fitting and furniture is to be removed and stored on the laid-up steamer Manapouri. It is said that the work will proceed continuously day and night until the fitting out of the vessel is completed. In connection with her transformation the passenger liner will be docked, and it is understood that the familiar bronze green on the outside of her hull will be superseded by white paint, on which will figure the red cross, indicating her mission of succouring the wounded. The fit-ting-out will probably take three weeks.

The Daily News fund is:— Previously acknowledged 401 1!) <5 Oka to .Methodist S. School 10 0 llrs, E. Dew (Knliotu) 2 0 0 A. M. Bradbury 1 1 0 J. McNeil (Awakino) ....... 300 Total £4OO 0 5