HELPING OUR WOUNDED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 302, 31 May 1915, Page 4

HELPING OUR WOUNDED.

LAUGH FUND IN WELLINGTON FURTHER UXIAL DONATIONS. The Internal Affairs Department Jku» now retell £]]„!.„ Hospital Ship Fund, sj lyß a p re3g 4 S '""" w '" i * ir nounced that special donations would be received by him towards the fitting out ( ,f tlie hospital ship, and that the • Army throughout Now Zealand we» ■til expected t 0 do their share in thfe Rood work. The entrance f ewj in the competition held, by tJi« New Plymouth <j o y , '»' , ast tWo Saturdays in aid of the fund amount to £2 The tnfn! amount collected at Stratford 1 to Saturday W as CS72 Is sd, whik thl ilawera fund ia ,C44!> ss. The Daily News Fund is':— £ 1 , To amount previously acknow pW ; 408 0 « ' R. C. Hughes •r. C. liell (Oakum) 2 5® Cl,art™ Mel. Young (Tarikij... t ° , H. Allardice (Puniho Road) lift W I'. Guild (Pungarehu) .. lift P. Wood (Oakura) « n „ H. Sinclair \ ® J <>. E. Wills (Tikorangi) j 1 ft IT. Slioeniark (Kaimiro) 0 Jft rt Master A. W'l's (Tikorangi) 05 0 Miss 0. Wills (Tikorangi) 05 0 T ° tal £423 <To COST OF THE SHIP. STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER. ( By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, i/nt • JTight. Ibinga are going on very well In- < eed 111 regard to the hospital ship,"' declared the Prime Minister, when onestioned on the subject. ,« With the ofc. ■ jeet. of correcting an impression that Hcems to prevail in some quarters I' may aav," he added, " that th.s Govannient was prepared to find the whole of the money necessary for +hc charter and equipment of the hospital shift g»d. . as a matter of fact), we ar« Baying the whole sum required for the charter of the «lup, wages and the cost of flttW ' the vessel. But hundreds of flaw-oil* an<l patriotic people all over New Zt» land have insisted tlmt they, should be given an opportunity to contribute to the equipment in cost and'material, and they are doing so t ft rough his Excellency tiie Governor, who has taken a very active and prominent part in connection with this matter, and 1' believe that the anticipations expressed by the Governor in Auckland a few days ago will be realised, and that when the Maheno is properly fitted out and equip, ped she will be the best hospital'shift in the world." r NAPIER'S CONTRIBUTION. Napier, Last Niglit As a result of street collections on Saturday close on £7OO was raised for the hospital ship. With previous donations the amount raised for this object to date is about £IOOO, 1