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Red Cross Fund (headquarters, Order of St. John, London):— E s. d. E s. d. Hawke's Bay War Relief Association 303 0 0 Canterbury Centre, British Red Cross Society... ... 871 8 3 Invercargill Branch, British Red Cross Society ... 745 15 9 Hastings Red Cross workers ' ... ... ••■ 100 0 0 Hawke's Bay War Relief Association ... 100 0 0 St. John Ambulance Brigade Overseas, Wellington ... 250 0 0 Miss S. Wilson", Carterton ... ... ■■■ 10 0 2,371 4 0 St. Dunstan's Hospital Fund : — Hunterville Countess of Liverpool Fund and Red Cross Guild ' 103 0 0 Women's National Reserve. Hastings ... ... 1,140 0 0 Collected by Mrs. E. Cliisholm, Newtown ... 2115 0 Bull's, Sanson, and Rangitikei Relief Fund ... 16 11 0 1,281 (i 0 British Navy Relief Fund : — Hastings Women's National Reserve ... ••• 324 3 7 Hunterville Relief Fund ... ... ... ... , 15 1 0 339 4 7 British Medical Benevolent Fund: — Otago Patriotic and General Welfare Association 150 0 0 Regimental Fund : — Wanganui Patriotic Society ... ••■ ••• ••• 266 15 6 Royal Flying Corps Hospital Fund : — Hastings Red Cross workers ... ... ... ••• 200 0 0 Overseas Club Tobacco Fund :— Palmerston North Overseas Club Tobacco Fund ... ... 75 0 0 Prisoners of War Central Fund : — Hastings Red Cross workers ... ... •■• 100 0 0 Hawke's Bay War Relief Association ... ... 10 0 0 110 0 II Blue Cross* Fund : — Hawke's Bay War Relief Association ... 10 2 6 Belgians m England Relief Fund : — Dunedin Evening Star list ... ... ... 25 0 0 Belgian Children. Relief Fund : — Methodist Sunday-school children, Shannon ... ... ... 3 0 0 Polish Relief Fund :— Bull's, Sanson, and Rangitikei Relief Fund ... ... 10 0 Lawrence Patriotic Fund ... ... ... -•• 3 2 6 4 2 6 Serbian Relief Fund :— Lawrence Patriotic Fund ... ..'. ... ... 3 17 0 Bull's, Sanson, and Rangitikei Relief Fund ... ... 10 0 1 17 0 _i Prince of Wales' Fund : — Lawrence Patriotic Fund ... ... ... ... 3 18 0 Chiefs and people of Siunut. Samoa... ... ... 10 0 0 13 |s 0 Roumanian Relief Fund: — Mrs. E. Bland, Plimmerton ... ... ... ••■ 2 0 0 Armenian Relief Fund : — Mrs. E. Bland, Plimmerton ... ... ... ... 3 10 0 £8,270 I 7 In addition the following amount has been remitted through the Defence Department: — Regimental Fund : — To the Paymaster-General, New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, Egypt ... ... ... ... ... .£lO5 0 0 .1. G. Waho, Minister of Finance,

No. 25. New Zealand, No. 173. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, sth July, 1917. I have the honour to inform you that I have caused to be laid before my Ministers your despatch, Dominions No. 212, of the 4th April last, on the

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