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Attached is a general statement of accounts and a list of helpers without whose capable and unselfish assistance the Ladies Welfare Committee could not have carried out their task.

MAUD V. SMITH,

Chairman,

Welfare Committee, 7th February, 1938.

Treasurer's Report.

I was appointed Treasurer at the first meeting of the Ladies Welfare Committee, and began work on 24th August with $100, most of which was immediately expended on essential purchases for the camps at Happy Valley and the old Central British School.

Our original funds were very generously contributed by Mr. J. H. Taggart who donated $10,000 to our Committee. The balance of that sum was transferred to me in instalments, $300 on 31st August, $300 on 7th September, $7,300 on 14th September and the remaining $2,000 on 25th October.

Other sources of revenue have been :-

$1,000 from Mr. F. C. Hall

$100 from Mrs. C. G. Alabaster

$50 from the the Rotary Club for toys

$5 from Miss Marrick for fruit

$69 from three anonymous donors

$252 from a dance sponsored by H.M.S. Rover

$375 from a dance sponsored by H.M.S. Parthian

$514.33 proceeds of a dance for the children of the late Mrs. Xavier $325 from Sir Vandeleur Grayburn.

The sale of tables and chairs realized $95.75 and bank interest increased our balance by $3.67.

An advance of $350 made on 30th November to Mrs. M. A. Brown was repaid by her on 8th December.

Our total revenue has therefore amounted to $13,139.75.

Expenditure has fallen mainly into five categories. Refugees resident here have been assisted with pocket money; money has been required for wool for knitting, clothing for men, women and children, fruit and toys; passages have been provided for a number, and many have been given small sums as landing money; all the money subscribed for Mrs. Xavier's children has been sent to Shanghai for their maintenance except for a small sum paid to them here to enable them to land in Shanghai with a little money in their pockets, and money is now being spent in maintaining in Hong Kong the last of our refugees.

Our total expenditure up to date is $12,868.08, and I have in my hands a balance amounting to $271.67.

G. M. MACGREGOR,

26th January, 1938.

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