Saturday, November 5, 2011

CHINESE FAMINE & LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS.

The Chinese Consul (Mr Hwang) makes acknowledgment of the following additional subscriptions in connection with the famine in certain Chinese districts Amount previously acknowledged, £199 7s 6d Mr. A. Tom (Featherston), £1 10t> 6d; total collected by Mr. Tom from Chiue.se in Featherston, .62 sa; Messrs. Low and Bing (Wanganui). £3; total collected by Low and Bing from Chinese in Wanganui, £3 ss Mr. J, Hanstad (Haleuitibcj, 3s 6d New Zealand Warehousemen's Association (Wellington), £3 3s total collected by Chinese Kmpiro Reform Association j (Sydney, Australia), .060 12s; Mrs. 1. Janet Bushley (Stoke, Nelson). £2; Mi. Yip Woon (Kumara), £1 total collected by Mr. Yip Woon from Chinese in Kumara, £6 16s 6d total cullcctscl 1 by Mr. Wong Way Kee from Chinese in Masterton, Ho 12s 6d Air. Wah Lee (Auckland). iJ2 An English Lady" (Wellington). 2s 6d j Mr. Sue ll r at (Rcefton), £1; total collected by Mr. Sue Vat from Chinese in Recfton, A3 16s: Mrs. Shea (Wellington), 2s 9d collected by Mr. l 7 eo Hong from Chiucso in Wellington, £2 10s 6d Mr. Gee Lous (Bulk). £1 10s; total collected by Mr. Chew Chong from European friends in New Plymouth, £33 4o; R. D." (Wellington). £2; "An Unknown Friend" (Wellington), ss, tota 1 collected by Mr. Quong Chong On from Chinese in'Hokitika, £4 4s; "A Lady Friend" (per the Rev. W. S. Potter, Wellington). 10s; Mr. D. N. MacDiarmid (New Plymouth). ss; total collected by Messrs. On Chong and Co. from Chinese In Sydney (Australia), £120; "An Anonymous" (Wellington), £I;— total, £465 5s 3d. On 28th January £200 was remitted by cablo through tho Union Bank of Australia, and a sum of £250 is to bo sent to-day to Dr. John C. Ferguson, editor of the Shanghai Times. Further donations will be duly forwarded. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1911, Page 2

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