Our Aberdare Fund-L8,004 'is. 6d. so far

The following list represents subscriptions to the SPECTATOR Aberdare Fund received up to the first post on Tuesday, January 22nd, 1929. All remittances (which should be addressed to the Editor, The SPECTATOR, 18 York St., Covent Garden, London, W.C.2) should be made payable to the SPECTATOR Ltd., and crossed "Aberdare a/c." We acknowledge gratefully a further consignment of parcels. To avoid delay, goods should be sent direct to The Hon. Secretary, Service Committee, Town Hall, Aberdare, marked " SPECTATOR Fund." The distribution of the SPECTATOR Fund is in the hands of a local . Committee at Aberdare, the Chairman of which is the Chairman of the Urban District Council, the Hon. Treasurer is the Director of Education, and the Hon. Secretary, the Town Clerk. The need is urgent, and we would appeal to those who have not yet contributed to do so.

Amount sent. Name. £ s. d.

L Tucker Barr 50 0 0

Miss Henderson 20 0 0 Anonymous .. 20 0 0 Dunamuir 10 0 0

W. A. Hodges.. 10 0 0

" Muster' 10 0 0 "V. E. B." .. 10 0 0

6. 10 0 Mrs. Ashton - 6 0 0 Edmund Waiters 5 5 0 " A Great Grandfather " 5 5 0 A. Graham .. 5 5 0 Carl T. Keller .. 5 0 0

" Ulanu Forte " . • 5 0 0 Miss Isabel Mc.Clive 5 0 0 6 0 0 The Rev. I. Gardner- Brown 5 0 0

Miss F. F. Montresor 5 0 0

Miss C. M. Allen 5 0 0

B. M. C." 5 0 0

" M. W. G." .. 5 0 0 Miss Edith GtMdell 5 0 0 " An American Reader" 5 0 0 Mrs. Theodore Meedy 5 0 0 Mrs. Spencer .. 5 0 0 A. C. H. Champion .. 5 0 0 Miss Graham .. 5 0 0

Dinnington Church

Council ' .. 4 0 9 Amount sent. Name. s. d.

Mrs. Arthur. Gore .. 3 5 0 Mr. & Mrs. H. A. N.

Stickland .. 3 0 0

" From Longparish ".. 2 10 6

"T. A. S." .. 210 0 Concoction at Cotes Heath Church, Nr. Stafford .. 2 5 0 Rev. C. E. G. J. .. 2 2 0 Mr. & Mrs. Edmund T. Gray 2 2 0 A. E. Webb 2 2 0 E. L. Twittle 2 2 0

E. Farquhar .. 2 0 Q

"W. K. S." .. 2 0 0 Rev. J. F. & Mrs. Medley .. .. 2 0 0 Rev. George Murton .. 2 0 0 E. C. Sutton 2 0 0 Miss H. Calvert .. 2 0 0 J. Rowe 1 1 0

" In Memoriam," S. W. 1 1 0 Arthur R. Hands .. 1 1 0 Miss Blanche Dickinson 1 1 0 M. W. Brown .. . • 1 1 0 "A. C. W." .. 1 0 " T. A. W." .. 1 0 0 W. Last 1 0 0 " Thank-offering " . • 1 0 0

Miss E. C. Seymour . • 1 0 0 Amount sent. Name. £ s. d. Miss S. Adkin .. 1 0 0 Miss E. Rose Lee . 1 0 0 " M. A. H. & M. L. H." 1 0 0

Miss Eliza Broughton.. 1 0 0

Miss Paterson .. 1 0' 0 " A. J. C. " .. 1 0 0 " F. R." 1 0 0 1 0 0 Miss Joyce E. Baker.. 1 0 0 " A Hampstead reader

of the Spectator " . . 1 0 0

" C. H. & C. M. B." .. 1 0 0 Mrs. M. G. Paterson .. 1 0 0 " A Friend " 0 10 0 " A. G. G." 0 1:0 0 F. Rainsford 0 10 0 "E. H. C.".. 0 10 0

" Beverley Minister

Men's Fellowship " Debate .. .. 0 7 0 " Anonymous IL B.".. 0 5 0 Cyril A. G. Coles .. 0 5 0 Miss L. M. Cruse .. 0 5 0 Anonymous- . 0 5 0

" A Spectator Reader." 0 5 0

Miss Mabel P. Fitz- Gerald 0 5 0 Miss AL Lucas 0 5 0 " J. 0 J." .. 0 4 0 " Mrs. H. E. A." 0 2 6

The Hon. Treasurer of the Aberdare Service Committee requests us to acknowledge safe receipt of a cheque for one guinea from Mrs. W. F. Dickinson, Kingsweston, Near Taunton, which was found in a parcel of clothing despatched to Aberdare.

Readers wishing to forward CLOTHING AND OTHER cirrs IN KIND for our Aberdare Fund are requested to send them direct to the Hon. Secretary, Aberdare Service Committee, Town. Hall, Aberdare, marked " Spectator Fund." All cash donations (cheques, postal orders or money orders) should be addressed as usual to the Editor, The Spectator, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2.

NOTE.-In order to prevent possible loss in transit, readers are requested to send their remit- tances to the SPECTATOR office and not to include them in their parcels.

We publish below the -fourth list of subscribers who have responded to the invitation to provide a weekly sum for one or more of the 1,500 necessitous families in Aberdare for a certain period.

A Spectator Reader, £20 (5s. each weekly for four families for 20 weeks).

. Edward B. Ormond, £13 (5s. each weekly for four families for 13 weeks).

Mrs. M. L. Teichmann, £13 (5s. each weekly for two families for 26 weeks).

" A. N.," £10 (5s. each weekly for two families for 20 weeks). Anonymous, £10 (5s. each weekly for two families for 20 weeks). Mrs. Pearson, £10 (10s. weekly for one family for 20 weeks).

Mrs. & Mrs. G. P. Reed. £6 (5s. each weekly for two families for 12 weeks).

" W. S.," £6 (5s. each weekly for two families for 12 weeks). " H. T.," £6 (Is. each weekly for two families for 12 weeks).

Mrs. Parish, £6 (10s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

" G. S.," £5 10s. (5s. each weekly for two families for 11 weeks).

Miss Marjorie N. Hawker, £5 5e. (5s. weekly for one family for 21 weeks).

Anonymous, £5 (5s. weekly for one family for 20 weeks). " A. J. W. £5 (5e. each weekly for two families for 10 weeks).

Frank J. Ward, £5 (5s. weekly for one family for 20 weeks). " W. J. K." £5 (5s. weekly for one family for 20 weeks).

Dr. W. Wood, Jr., £5 (5s. weekly foil one family for 20 weeks).

Miss C. M. Hudson, £5 (5s. weekly for one family for 20 weeks). Miss Winsome Armitage Ogden, £5 (5s. weekly for one family for 20 weeks).

" E. A. 0.," £5 (5s. weekly for one family for 20 weeks). Mrs. Wrench, £5 (5s. each weekly for two families for 10 weeks).

Miss Margaret Spokes, £5 (5s. each weekly for two families for 10 weeks).

Lt.-Col. & Mrs. C. J. West, £5 (5s. each weekly for two families for 10 weeks). W. G. Thompson, £5 (5s. each weekly for two families for 10 weeks).

" M. L. C.," £5 (5s. weekly for one family for 20 weeks).

" W. R. T.," £5 (5s. each weekly for two families for 10 weeks). Miss Graham, £5 (5s. each weekly for two familiee for 10 weeks).

Miss Pearson, £5 (Es. each weekly for two families for 10 weeks).

Rev. E. A. Gillespie, £4 (5s. weekly for one family for 16 weeks). Mrs. B. A. Pesel, £3 5s. (5s. weekly for one family for 13 weeks). Mrs. J. L. Smith, £3 5s. (5s. weekly for one family for 13 weeks).

Dr. & Mrs. E. G. J. Thom, £3 5s. (58. weekly for one family for 13 weeks).

F. Gelderd Somerwell, £3 Is. (5s. weekly for one family for 13 weeks).

Anonymous, £3 5s. (58. weekly for one family for 13 weeks).

E. W. Bower, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). Mrs. E. 0. Humfrys, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). " W.," £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). A. D. Carey (Mrs.), £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

Anonymous, £3 (56. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). " M. D. W.," £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

Mrs. Thomas Egger, £3 (5a. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). Miss J. Burns, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). " M. E. H.," £3 (6s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

Miss A. Moon, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). Mrs. Watkin Browne, £3 (58. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

" An Irishwoman," £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). " E. R. B.," £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

E. D. S.," £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). " E. D. C.," £3 (58. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). Mrs. Lindsell, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). Miss Edith Prahl, £3 (58. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

Miss Cullinan, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

" G. M. T.," £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). Mrs. William Best, £3 (Is. weekly kir one family for 12 weeks).

" A. R. P.," £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

" C. T. G.," £3 (5e. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). Miss R. Rogers, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

" L. V.," £3 (Is. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

Miss E. F. Bucknell, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). Wm. E. Potts, £2 15s. (5s. weekly for one family for 11 weeks). " W. A. J.," £2 10s. (5s. weekly for one family for 10 weeks). M. G. Martineau, £2 10s. (5s. weekly for one family for 10 weeks).

Miss Ecroyd, £2 10s. (5s. weekly for one family for 10 weeks).

" Ex-S. London R. D.," £2 108. (5s. weekly for one family for 10 weeks).

" G. of C. D.," £2 10e. (5s. weekly for one family for 10 weeks).

Mrs. E. A. Girling, £2 10s. (5s, weekly for one family for 10 weeks). Mrs. Hetherington, £2 10s. (53. weekly for one family for 10 weeks).

W. H. Childe, £2 10s. (58. weekly for one family for 10 weeks).

" R. J. S. G.," £2 10s. (5s. weekly for one family for 10 weeks).

Mrs. A. R. Robinson, £2 58. (5s. weekly for one family for 9 weeks).

" In Memoriam, W. T. B.," £2 5s. (5s. weekly for one family for 9 weeks).

" Dinosaur," £2 (5s. weekly for one family for S weeks). M. L. Vellacott, £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks).

Mrs. G. Castle Smith, £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks).

" A. C. P.," £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks). H. F. M. Pope, £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks).

Miss Cartledge, £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks).

" E. G. A.," £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks).

Miss Steward, £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks).

Mrs. Afawhood and Mrs. Peel, £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks). I. T.," £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks).

A. H. Baker, £2 (10s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks). -E. D. Mylne, £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks).

B. L. Viney, £1 ls. (58. weekly for one family for 4 weeks).

Miss M. L. Marshall, £1 Is. (5s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks). Miss Irwin, £1 (5s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks).

Mrs. S. Wimbush, £1 (5s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks). A. F. Wallis, £1 (58. weekly for one family for 4 weeks).

Mrs. F. Pelham, £1 (58. weekly for one family for 4 weeks).

" E. G. G.," £1 (58. weekly for one family for 4 weeks).

" M. K.," £1 (5e. weekly for one family for 4 weeks). " M. E. F.,". £1 (5e. weekly for one family for 4 weeks). Miss C. M. Mallet, £1 (5s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks). Miss D. H. Ibbitson, £1(5.. weekly for one family for 4 weeks). " One of the 1,500, and a reader of the Spectator," 15s. (5s. weekly for

one family for 3 weeks). " A 40 years' Reader, E. Yorks.," 10s. (5s. weekly for one family fey 2 weeks).

"H. C.," 10e. (5s. weekly for one family for 2 weeks).

" A Business Girl, ' 10s. (5e. weekly for one family for 2 weeks). C. D. Greenwood, 5s. (5s. for one family for 1 week).

Four hundred and five necessitous families are, by the generosity of our readers, now assured of assistance for a definite time. Out of 1,500 there remain 1,095 to be " adopted." Further consignments of clothing received at the SPECTATOR Office have been despatched to the Town Clerk of Aberdare. They will be distributed at once by the Organizing Committee,