Kieta Raises £148 for Red Cross

Red Cross

THE following is from Mr. Drummond

Thomson, of Numa Numa, Bougain

ville, T.N.G., honorary secretary and

treasurer of the Kieta Comforts Fund: On October 27, it was decided by some of your readers in Bougainville and Buka districts to form a Comforts Fund Branch of the New Guinea. Division of the Australian Red Cross Society, to be known as the Kieta Comforts Fund. The object was to guarantee a supply of knitting and sewing materials sufficient always to meet the demands of our many lady members who had decided to make useful articles and comforts suitable for issue to those on active service, or to the hospitals. The first parcel of “com forts” are to-morrow (December 23) be ing sent to the honorary secretary of Rabaul Headquarters Division, and the donations to the fund to date total £l4B/9/-. The list of donors to Decem ber 24 is:— Dr. & Mrs. A. V. G. Price, £5; Mr. & Mrs.

N. J. Tudberry, £l/1/-; Mr. & Mrs. W. R.

Smith, £1; Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Joyes, £l/1/-; Mr. & Mrs. C. R. Doyle, £1; Mr. & Mrs. H. C.

Gridley, £1; Mrs. E. Falkner, £2; Mr. J. I.

Merrylees, £5; Mr. & Mrs. A. L. Walker, £5/5/-; Mrs. Drummond Thomson, £3/3/-; Buka Plan tations, Ltd., £lO/10/-; Mr. Drummond Thomson, £5/5/-; Mr. & Mrs. N. O. Clappison, £1; Mr.

L. S. Colebrooke, £l/1/-; Mr. P. E. Mason, £lO/10/-; Mr. N. C. Sandford, £2/2/-; Mr. F.

C. Urban, £2; Mr. R. Stuart, £3; Mrs. R. M.

Farlow, £2/10/-; Mr. R. M. Farlow, £2/10/-; Bishop Wade, £5; Marist Mission, £5; Mr. E.

J. Dyer. £l/1/-; Mr. M. English, £3; Mr. Muk Lee, £5; Mr. A. R. Long, £5; Mr. R. G. Pick well. £2; Mr. C. R. Tulley, £1; Mr. C. W. M.

Evans, £1; Mr. T. E. Ebery, £1; Dr. & Mrs.

Oliver, £1; Mrs. L. S. Colebrooke, £l/1/-; Mr. & Mrs. A. L. Robinson, £1; Mr. Wong Yu, £5; Tack Long & Co., 10/-; Burns Philp (S.S.) Co., £l/1/-; Mr. A. Scott, £l/1/-; Mr. S. Tame, £l/1/-; Mr. W. A. L. Clarke, £l/1/-; Mr. Chung Ah For, £1; Mr. J. Martin, £1; Mr. H. L.

Downing, £3; Mr. & Mrs. W. Newall, £l/1/-; Mr. Wong Tu, £1; Mrs. C. Cooke, 10/-; Mr. & Mrs. W. M. Knox, £2; Mr. W. G. Walsh, £1; Mr. S. H. C. Short, £2; Pastor & Mrs. Pascoe, £l/1/-; Rev. & Mrs. A. H. Voyce, £l/1/-; Natives of Tiop, Methodist collection, £3/17/-: Mr. & Mrs. W. Brown, £l/1/-; Mrs. J. H. Ellis. £1; Miss M. Ellis, £1; Mr. J. H. Ellis, £3; Miss E. Common, £2; Mr. T. B. Bilton, £2; Mr.

Ching Yung. £5; Mrs. Yung, £1; Mr. & Mrs.

L. Chan, £2/2/-; Miss A. Chan. £l/1/-; Master M. Chan, £l/1/-: Mr. K. Ikeda, £1; Mr.

Ishabishi, £1; total, £l4B/9/-.