INGLEWOOD PATRIOTIC SOCIETY.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1917, Page 3

INGLEWOOD PATRIOTIC SOCIETY.

ANNUAL MEETING,

The annual meeting of the PatrioticSociety was held in the Town Hall on Friday evening but was very poorly attended. His Worship the Mayor occupied the chair and read the report, which stated, inter alia, that the funds invested and in thc/hands of the Association at March 31 ain'onnted to £43,180 4s 3d, and relief and assistance to the amount of JE4So 8s 4d, has been granted by the executive together with £lllO advanced to returned soldiers by way of loan, and £930 forwarded for soldiers' comforts overseas. Delegates from the committee had visited Tarata, Kaimata and Ratapiko, and conferred with the local committees who had intimated their intention of joining in the provincial scheme and remitting funds raised for tho relief of sick and wounded soldiers to the central executive, through the lnglewood committee. The ladies' committee had 'done excellent work in organising socials, RcJ Cross Marts, etc., and, with the assistance of the ladies from Kaimata, Maketawa, and Egmont Village the sum of £G!)(i lis fld had been raised during the past year for Red Cross and siuiilo'r objects, and in addition they had provided a parcel of comforts for each man entraining for camp from luglewood. In October last the returned soldiers in the district, in conjunction with the Ladies' Committee organised a social to provide Christmas gifts for the New Zealand nurses at Brockcnhurst Hospital, and a 3iim of ,£73 10s 6d was raised and forwarded to the medical officer in charge. Very appreciative letters had been received from Dr. Wylie, and from nurses at tho hospital in acknowledgment of this gift. Since the inception of the committee the total amount that iian ■been raised and passed throu"'t their hands is £3733 lis lid.

The accompanying balance sheet showed the principal disbursements to be— Red Cross Fund, £594 10s; French Bed Cross, £594 10s; Taranaki Motor Ambulance, £10; Y.M.C.A., £10; Navv league, £l5O 7s 7d; Serbian Belief £SO; Belgian Relief, £2!) 12s 3d. Christmas gifts to nurses, £73 10s fld; while the sum of £IOOS 10s had been transferred from the wounded soldiers' fund to the Taranaki War Relief Association. The total amount'of rejcipts (including £583 os Od, balance from last year) amounted to £2189 lis 4d. There was a balance of £O7 2s 4d with which to begin the new year.

ihe election of a committee ftr the [ensuing year resulted in the return of the committee, consisting of Messrs. S Young, J. Percival, Messenger, Winfield H. Brown, A. F. Currie, Dr. Nutting' and J. Sutherland, with Mr., s O. Carroll to fill the vacancy caused through Mr Huston leaving the district.