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PATRIOTIC WORK.

The Red CroM Mart was again wcl* patronised on Saturday, the takings for the day, including £l,l, half proceeds -if the recent ci.ncert at Bell Block, amounting to £33 14». There was a good display of every kind of produce, and the supply was really all top small to satisfy the requirements of the many purchaser*.

"Flower Day" on Saturday, was in aid °f, tliß, YM.C.A. institutions near the firing-lino in Franco, and, as usual, owners 6f gardens forwarded all their blooms and the public responded generously to th» committee's appeal*. It was most unfortunate for the workers thnt just at their busiest time, between one and two o'clock they had to make a hurried exit from their depot, in Mr. Newton K : ng's premises, 011 account of the fire tliut tlreatened to devastate the block. However, many hands make light work, and within a few minutes nil the flow en had been safely transfcrrcd to the stall at Ambury's corner, where prm redings went on as if nothing untoward had happened, The takings for the day amounted to £lO 3a 9d, of which the Siim of £5 was received in donations. Miss D. Barry was very successful in selling button-holes, netting' £4 Ids (Id by this means alone. The Indies' wc-klntr were Mesdames Burgess and White, Mlwes Sole, Grant, Solway, Barry, Fabifin, K. Leathern, F. Winfield, and V'am-n. while Master Allen Mclvean was as usual A'n invnlilable helper. Miss Hammond was also to the fore in disposing of tickets for an art union, to be drawn on yovember Ist, for a number of pr-aes that have been donated to the fumß

Tn connection with the patriotic billiard toumnnent that is now in progress at the Criterion billiard parlour, in aid of the Solders' Comforts Week Fund, v,*e arc asked t.-> state that all players who, drawn in tli" first round, do not attend to-nig'.t (Monday) to play their games must forfeit their fees. It is the desire of the promoters to have all rounds completed so that the final game will eventu.ite during Soldiers' Comforts Week.

The following fatter, dated France, August M. lifts hecr. received by the lion, secretary of the local brane hof the Victoria League from Lieut-Colonel D. M. McGavin, O.C. No, 1 New Zealand Stationary J. r o«pital: "I have, to acknowledge receipt of two cases of gifts which have just arrived from you. They have come at e.r. extremely opportune time, and all th? contents will be the greatest use to us Please convey our thanks to yoiir< Guild for the work they hava have done frr us."

Mrsf Burgess acknowledges the following sums 011 behalf of the Nurses' Christmas Gifts Fund, as a result o - .' sales from settled, that were kindly auctioned bv permission of Air. Newton King it the Haymarket on October 4: Calf 10s, et'f lis (Id, 50 posts £2 10a, pi? 5f.-T.jtal £3 14s fld. Meslames Hugh Baily and Morrison acknowledge the following donations to their fund for parcels for the boys at the front— B US. (Smart Road), os; children, Fitzroy School £1 Is; spinsters, Bell Block social and dance, £ls. Tn eomuction with the sale on Thursday in Mr. Gilbert's grounds, under the auspices of the Mangorei-Carrlngton-Frankley Road Committee, a basket social \v(is held on I'riday evening in the Cafringtfm Road school. It wfis very largely attended, and a most enjoyable evenin" was spent by all present. The proceeds totalled in the vicinity of £l4. \ y c understand that the net proceeds ot the Committee's efforts on Thursday and Friday will amount to neariy £230, a j most satisfactory result upon which al| workers are to be congratulated.

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Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1916, Page 4

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PATRIOTIC WORK. Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1916, Page 4

PATRIOTIC WORK. Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1916, Page 4

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