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SAVING THE BABIES.
£10,000 Appeal for Home at Malvern
Permission hus been giauted bv the Charities Board to the Church of Lngland Miseion to the Streets and Lanes of Mel bourne to make a public appeal for £10 000 which will be devoted to the puichasing and equipping of a borne for babies This has been made necessary on account of the limitations of the home for
children in Wilson street Middle Brich
ton which has been in use as a home tor childi cn for 31 years and the demand for accommodation is now so great that tho sisteiB have been obliged to refuse «heiter to mony children foi w horn had there bein sufficient loom the-, woulil have been glad to pi oi ide An option until to la) lia» been obtained over a prop«ty at Mil tern which is ícgaided as being (tillable foi the purpose of alióme for bnbics
Wo have i eton ed the following dona
tions -
Arno iii preiiou Ii tukno iledrrcd £3 3"7 3 6 L. \ It 100 0 0 ?Ulm T O \ Traill 50 0 0 bt Catharine a Church Cauldeld (l(t
Instalment) . 3S « ! Buttun Dav - '
Mstir Ma £7/11/ Sire Nanliiell £7/2/1 Liurlston Girl« **clüol ili/7/ the Uti II Rai ort* £5/5/
Mm Carr 12 Mm Waterford 14/ ... St Jude » 13/, ills» Oaklej 8/ TO 0 J Mr» Uejmudor Moir «cn 10 S S Mística bl anl K i. Warri 6 5 0 Ilr and Min Tcffrou Wood 6 6 0 Wm Drummond, and Co S S S 1. Hindson g S 0 t lame« 6 0 0 Il 6 0 0 I ad* CiiGcaden ü ¡ ¡
Sliii ' "
1) iii
3 i 0
10 0
Sjmpatlii«ors* . f 2 ! Hamilton Wilson \ 1 S Vira Ulis U Davies ' ï î t, Lad} It« bliuôn J !J
Mm Miller (Hutton Day), 1 S- Hollow ai We Two each £2 0 1. ^»tT-Hf Dickson Mr«, t _ O Uyghcs Mrs O, » M Eddy mut Morlan 4i d Franc« Vjlwln each £1/1/ D"»U'J'-1"nd." °SÏ frei Smith FO, Mr« and MI« Çolewn »J* Neville Wight and A U»or of Çhilaren <*? £1 Mis. Hutton oni Kfcll g»*-»»» H l* each 10/ Miss K L Tavlor 6/ Wo. » Mite 5/, A Lover of Babte« ' 2/6 P ni Beech «Y
Total, £4 272/4/6
TO 1HE TDITOR 01 THL vHOUS.
Sir-As the time allowed by tho Charl
tics Board foi oui pub ho appeal cxpir« to dav. I wish on behalf of the commit tee of the Bnghton Babies Home, to thank subscubcis foicniost among whom aie the Edwaid Wilson (of The ilga» ) ftustces Io all who helped in organ« mg the appel) *iud to the,thonrandsvrl» on oui button daj showed thrir jnterert by puichasing and w ealing onrtatt«« aie very giatcful We «re fttll however moto than ii 000 shoit of the imouutte "«ned for the pureba e if tl.e^"««».»/" but having generousb leen gn»tcd .»
extension of our option of 1T$*"$
U dav s we confident!*, hope « "in IM time to icce.ve nt lest the full»»««* iciuued foi the pm chase with wTcW to«aids the cost of fencinc lo-idn»«"! and equipment rcqimed We "Ç,"1!
(¡ed that we nie offered « «I» K
pelt-, for our pin poces ind wc fee tw our duty to those who hive »Ircads * scribe I a» vu II as to the homelea¡tob«*
cilhng foi admittance to otu .>°T*,Iir£ go oi, and le,vc no stone iintiuwd"F* "ure the full amount while tl>tre»ÏÏi 111 ioiifidni.tl> appeal to our s«!»«' to iiibsCiibe at least 1.100 a da).for »J nett 14 «lavs to enable us to j'»'« JJ land and builduifes iotd> to wc come «*
little liomcie-s
Yours, _
ALEX L wettenhall, .
ALLA. !.. w "(jn -"__,",
10 Queen street, March 31