WAITARA.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1915, Page 3

WAITARA.

NORTH TARANAKI PATRIOTIC ' LEAGUE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Waitara, Yesterday The weekly meeting of the League was held in the Borough Council Chambers last evening, his Worship the Mayor presiding. There was a large attendance of members, including delegates from Urenui, Lepperton, and Huirangi. Letters were received from he Department of Internal Affairs, acknowledging receipt of cheque for the British Red Cross Fund; from the Waitara Road Dairy Co., enclosing cheque for £'29 4s lid, and a ehequa. for £33 Gs from the North Taranaki Dairy Co., lieing monthly contributions to the Belgian and Wounded Soldiers' Fund, and from the secretary of the Urenui branch advising that the sums of £2OO had been allotted to the Belgian Fund, £2OO to the Red Cross Fund, and £2OO to the Wounded ■Soldiers' Fund. The lion, secretary of the Countess ot 'Liverpool Fund wrote asking the assistance of this League in providing housewives and hold-alls for Expeditionary Forces. It was decided to leave the matter in the hands of the Mayoress.

Cheques for £l4 10s for the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, and £5 10s for the Belgian Fund, were received from Mr. Tweedie, being amounts collected at Awakino and district.

It was decided that this League join the Taranaki War Funds Association, and the chairman be appointed delegate to the executive; that the work of taking charge of the (id weekly fund be placed in the hands of Mr. Wylie; that a conference of delegates from Huirangi, Lepperton, Waitara, and Inglewood be arranged to form boundaries between the North Taranaki Patriotic "League and Inglewood districts, and it was suggested that the meeting be held at Mr. Atkinson's house: that the chairman, Messrs. Were and Buchanan be appointed a committee to draft rules and submit same to the general meeting; and that posters advertising patriotic demonstrations be sent to a responsible Minister, asking if they come within the meaning of the Act The sum of £lO 10s 6d was handed in as subscriptions for "Gallipoli Day." SAD ACCIDENT, to automobile resulted in painful injuries to occupants, but Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment quickly healed all woundß. Price Is 6i, and 3s. Obtainabe] everywhere.