Patriotic Funds

Subscriptions Mount in All Islands Centres

Throughout the world British people of every race, creed and colour are rallying to the colours with grim determination, ready to give their lives if necessary so that upon their Empire the sun shall never set.

Backing them, every community is mak ing a fine effort to raise money either for a War Fund or for the Red Cross; and in Islands centres the subscription lists are swelling as each week passes.

PORT MORESBY.—Numerous social functions and donations brought the Red Cross Fund to nearly £550 at the end of June. The Papuan War Fund, recently inaugurated, totalled £3,628 on June 28, including the following donations: — Papua Administration, £2,000; Anglo-Papuan Plantations and B.P. Branches, £2OO each; Hon.

T. Nevitt, Hon. A. Jewell, Mrs. M. H. Jewell, Sagarai Plantation, Dr. G. H. Vernon, B.N.G.

Trading Co., £100; Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Ward, Port Moresby Freezing Co., £5O; Hon. H. W.

Champion, £3O; F. B. Godson, “Papuan Courier”, Moresby Hotels, T. K. Bowes, T. L.

Sefton, Mrs. R. S. Munro, £25; Hon. S. Smith, Hon. A. P. Lyons, Hon. H. L. Murray, G. A.

Stewart, Dr. K. Washington Gray, Mrs. L. E.

Ashton, Public Service Association, £lO/10/-; Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Pollard, Squadron-Leader

Alexander, Mrs. T. L. Sefton, J. T. O’Malley, L. C. Littler, £10; K.P.R.E. Staff, £6; Mrs.

G. A. Stewart, R. M. Stewart, £5/5/-; G. A.

Bayer, P. N. Charpentier, G. Christie, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Williams, L. J. Weeks, Mrs. M. A.

Dette, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Smiith, Lieut. -> Commander T. Nixon, Mr, and Mrs. E. B.

Bignold, Dr. M. F. Glaessner, Lieut.-Commander and Mrs. E. A. Feldt, £5; T. Miller, £3; D.

Willmott, 42/-; K. Solien, £2; Armi and family, 24/-; Pouna and wife, 23/-; Mrs. Walsh, L. G.

Stewart, A. Beattie, 21/-; Raru Stima and family, Gabe Rae, Sr. and Jr., Samneli, £1; Miss D. Walsh, “Jock”, 10/6; Native contri butions ranging from 1/- to £l, £l6/3/-; Monthly contributions. G. A. Louden (£ 8/6/81.

E. J. Frame (£5), E. A. James (£4), W. E.

Rosser, W. H. Humphries (£3), Mr. and Mrs.

W. H. Leydin, Mrs. M. Mathews (£l/10/-).

SAMARAI. —A Picture Night (£6), the Bowl ing Club’s Novelty Evening (£55), Hon. G. E.

Aumuller’s card party (£25), and donations (Hon. T. Nevitt, £5; and Bishop Newton, £2) have swelled the Red Cross Fund to nearly £ 100. A novel scheme is also in operation— someone calculated that 66,125 pennies placed side by side would encircle the island, so an “Around Samarai With Pennies” fund is steadily mounting towards the desired goal of £275/10/5.

Progress of the fund is shown on a huge coloured map outside the Post Office.

MISIMA. —In remote Eastern Papua, the Misima War Workers’ Guild has been, en thusiastically raising funds and collected over £5O up to the middle of June. Dozens of knitted garments have been sent South for the troops. When Misima’s first contingent left, the Guild presented each man with two pairs of knitted sox and a tin of cigarettes.

TULAGI. —The Resident Commissioner (Mr. W.

S. Marchant) opened a Bazaar at the Tulagi Club on June 8 and the Solomon Islands Red Cross Society benefited by nearly £l3O as a result of many generous gifts from all parts

of the Protectorate. The Ladies’ Committee, under the guidance of Mrs. Ragnar Hyne (Hon.

Secretary and Treasurer) worked tirelessly to make the function a huge success. Total raised for the Red Cross to mid-June stood at £7BO.

RAROTONGA. —The Island Council has al lotted £2OO to the Red Cross Fund and a number of other donations have been received as proceeds from village dances (one at Tuku vaine raised £35).

SUVA. —Two subscription lists are open in Fiji—one for the Fiji Defence Comforts Fund (£240 late in June) and the other for the British Red Cross Appeal (over £2,250).

APIA.—The Samoa branch of the Red Cross

by the end of June had acknowledged £l7O.

THURSDAY ISLAND. —A monster sports car nival enabled T.I. to send a substantial contri bution to the Australian Comforts Fund.

NUKUALOFA. —English newspapers in June featured the fact that £3OO had been raised for the British Red Cross by natives of Tonga.

RABAUL. —Subscriptions, large and small, continue to stream in for the N.G. Division of the Red Cross and for the Commonwealth War Loan (see “Rabaul Jottings”, p. 47).

WAU.—Patriotic funds were augmented in June by a race meeting sponsored by the Wau Golf Club and a gala Red Cross Ball. During June, £1,105 was raised to purchase an ambul ance for the A.1.F., which will be named “Wau (N.G.) Ambulance”. The list of subscribers in cluded:—Mr. and Mrs. Vertigan, 21/-; Rev. V.

H. Sherwin, 21/-; Mrs. H. R. Hyde, £1; Mrs.

J. C. Nisbet, 21/-; Mandated Airlines, 105/-; R.

A. Laws, 110/-; E. W. Jenyns, 21/-; F. D.

Brown, £10; F. M. Draper, £5; Mrs. A. A.

Bellhouse, 42/-; K. Murray, £3; M. J. Leahy, £5; J. L. Leahy, £5; W. Upton, £1; W. G.

Mitchell, £10; Mrs. R. Barker, £5; J. A.

McCabe, 105/-; Mrs, J. A. McCabe, £1; J. A.

McCabe, Jr., £5; R. G. Morgan, 42/-; Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Frazer, 42/-; Miss B. Frazer, 21/-; N. R. Frazer, 21/-; Mrs. C. Wilton, 21/-; G.

George, £5; Guinea Airways, Ltd., 105/-; W.

W. Cameron, 42/-; C. C. Beckett, 21/-; Mrs. L.

C. Noakes, £1; Mrs. W. Horton, 21/-; W. R.

McConnon, £10; V. A. Florance, 50/-; L. Ull rich, 50/-; W. V. Helton, £2; M. Cameron, £1; C. K. Duffy, 21/-; P. Jensen, £l5; P. G. Sea forth, 21/-; A. E. Fry, £1; P. J. Leahy, 42/-; B. & Co., 105/-; K. A. Macgregor, 105/-; Sun shine G. Dev., 210/-; J. Peddie, £3; F. Isenbert, £5; P. Dart, 21/-; L. Roberts, 21/-; B. Borro dale, 21/-; J. B. McAdam, 21/-; W. V. Warren, 21/-; Koranga G. Sluicing, Ltd., £100; T. W.

Upson, 42/-; Enterprise of N.G., 105/-; S. C.

Clarke, 42/-; Women’s Guild, £5; G. M. Lane, £5; H. Taylour, 42/-; Mesdames Marsh & Frost, £2O; E. B. T. Allision, 42/-; E. B. Ayris, 21/-; G. W. Bellamy, 10/6; G. V. Wild, 42/-; R. W.

Tebb, 42/-; Morobe Bakery, Ltd., £10; Stephens Aviation, Ltd., £10; E. J. Stephens, £5; O.

Moen, 42/-; J. Poland, 50/-; A. J. Byrne, 21/-; Mrs. Kirwan, 21/-; A. J. Wilson, 21/-; J. G.

Brugh, £2; B. Fraser, 42/-; A. J. Peadon, £10; T. McLaren, 84/-; E. H. Lowe, £5; F. J. Smith, £2O; W. J. Cash, £2; Dr. W. E. Giblin, £5; B. Gordon, 42/-; W. J. Currie, £1; F. R.

Havill, 42/-; Mrs. M. J. Read, 21/-; F. Nelson, 105/-; Mrs. P. Crouch, 42/-; Mrs. C. M. Jones, £1; A. E. Pauley, £2; A. J. Connell, £2; Matron & Staff, European Hospital, £llO/3/6; J.

A. McKay, 42/-; Mesdames Gross, McKay, Plumb & Quinn, £22; Mr. & Mrs. J. D. Burke, 21/-; C. W. G. Fox, 21/-; J. A. Crockett, 21/-; Miss Wombwell, £1; L. Simpson, £3; D. C. G.

Phillips, 105/-; Mrs. Bowring, 21/-; L. Lane, 105/-; J. Hosey, 21/-; R. G. 2l/-; L. H. Knightley, 10/6; F. J. Lowe, 30/-; E. G.

Rideout, £5; J. W. McDonald, £5; H. G.

Rollinson, £5; G. R. Jay, £1; H. G. Taylor, £2; P. H. Bell, 21/-; A. Clarkson, 21/-; H.

Hotz, £1; A. Leydin, 42/-; J. Zeablitzsky, £1; R. Paoloni, £1; A. Costa, £1; M. Stefani, £1; W. W. Clarke, £1; G. Costa, £1; A. J. Winter ford, Jr., £1; L. H. Gielis, £1; J. Rigoni, 42/-; F. Philp, £2; T. C. Gibson, 21/-; F. H. Everall, 210/-; A. Winterford, £1; R. L. Boreham, £3; C. Cavalieri, £2; “Cliff side” (R. N. Wilde), £5O; R. Stanbury, £4; F. de Russett, £1; Mrs.

Poland, 42/-; E. R. Michell, £1; W. Donnelly, £2; D. B. Coutts, £5; Estate of A. Schrater, £5; United Women’s League (Edie Creek), £3O; O. Bell, 21/-; W. V. Quinn, 63/-; Greenwood & Laws, Ltd., 105/-; P. J. Mazlin, 63/-; R. C.

Symes, 210/-; N.G.G., Ltd., £25; K. B. Gross, 105/-: F. J. Leydin, 42/-; J. Scott, 10/6; D.

Gray, 10/6; C. H. Maggs, 5/-; D. M. Campbell, 10/6; Mr. & Mrs. W. G. Mitchell, £66/10/-; C.

Moen, £2; Mesdames Burke, Courtney & Lyall, £26; J. Dewar & Sons, Ltd., £25; V. G. Smith, 62/6; F. D. Brown, £3; Miss Krell, 5/-; Associates, Golf Club, £5; Miss Macnamara, 10/6; T. Zoffmann, £3O; Wau Club, Ltd., £2O; Wau Golf Club. £75/13/-; Sandy Creek G.S., Ltd., £26/5/-; Gold & Power, Ltd., £26/5/-; G. Johnson, £1; Australian Labour Party, 42/-.