The accompanying list of cash donations shows that we continue
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to receive material support on the iteome side for our "Campaign Comforts" Fund. The receipts from Scotland, thanks to the personal activity of Mr. D. McNeil Sharp, of the Halley works, have been further increased by 25 19s. 6d., the individual subscriptions being :-Employees of Victoria Park Hygienic Laundry, Glasgow, La 8s. 6d. ; J. R. Herbertson and Co., Glasgow, 21 lie.; collected by Miss M. Mackie, Glasgow, 14s.; collected by Robert Anderson, Newton Mearns, 6s. Individual help of this kind is much appreciated by the organizers of the Fund, and net least of all by the members of the Ladies Committee, who have themselves rendered valuable help in the matter of collections. It will be observed that sevt-ral collections from the employees of well-known works and depots have been increased by fresh contributions, whilst one other collection in the same category makes a welcome first appearance in our list. Aster Engineering Co., Ltd., Wembley (proceeds of sale of " 0.11.M.S." badges to employees) ... J. B. Scott, A.S.C., France
Liverpool Vesta Cake Co. (making 25 10s. 6d.) ... Employees of Loughborough Road Car Co., L A. (making 22 16s.)
A. Crane, Holloway (making 21 us. 6d.) ... Mrs. Avory, London ...
Miss M. Miles, Southport ... Moore Bros., Swanscombe, Kent
R. Wigglesworth, Dacre Banks, Leeds .
Total ... £4639 19 10 Purchases Now Average £500 a Month.
On the distribution side we have been correspondingly busy. Recent purchases have included a further supply of tobth brushes and tooth soap. We have also been able to acquire another consignment of socks at the .same favourable rate as before. At the present time we are considering the question of the purchase of some half-a-dozen or so grambphones. These will probably be chosen from some few score second-hand ones which have been offered to us. A member of the staff, expert in such matters, has kindly volunteered his aid in the selection of the half-dozen.
Last Friday was the occasion for another "packing night," when the customary batch of cases was packed, labelled and prepared for the visit of the railway company's messenger on the Saturday morning. We mentioned in our issue of the 20th May that we had received a further list of companies at the Front. In the interim we have verified by actual communications from " somewhere in France" that the miNjority of these are in such a position that comforts would be welcome. As a eonsequenee, the majority of the cases filled on Friday night were for the benefit of the companies who had never before received a share. The heavy additions to our list of recipients now calls for the expenditure of 2500 a month. We rely on the support of our readers.