HOSPITAL COLLECTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3069, 14 December 1908, Page 5

HOSPITAL COLLECTIONS.

DEMONSTRATION BY BRASS BANDS. AT WELLINGTON. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, December 13. The annual Hospital collections promoted by the City bandsmen were taken in the streets yesterday, and to-clay. During yest... iy morning anJ afternoon boxe" 'vara by abojt thirty iadies, and in the evening by Navals, Highlanders, and other men. The amount remrned for yesterday's efforts totals 9s 9d, which is nearly £IOO less than the receipts for Saturday last time. In addition to the box°s in the streets there ware about 80 placed in city hotels, whivih will v.ot be opened for a few days. This afternoun a largely attended demjnstration was held at the Basin Reserve, when the boxes were out again. The totals ware n.>t to be made up until t>night. Eight bands attended and played. The Hjh. C. M. Luce, Chairman of the Wellington Hospital Trustees, delivered an address, and mentioned that the immediate demands upon the Trustees would be from twenty tu thirty thousand pounds.

NAPIER AND HASTINGS. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' DEMONSTRATION. By Telegraph—Press Association. NAPIER, December 13. The annual collections under the auspices of the United Friendly Societies in aid of the Napier Hospital funds were made in Napier on Saturday. The weather was broken, but cleared towards the end of the day. The Societies are holding a demonstration at Hastings to-day, where the weather is unsettled. Two special trains were run from Napier. The Hospital Trustees have this year undertaken the erection of a new Home for Nurses and a ward for chronic sufferers. A reconstruction of the main building is contemplated at an early date, and a special appeal for contributions has in consequence been made to the public. It is believed the response will prove to be very satisfactory.