The acknowledged subscriptions to the Coronation Memorial Fund. for the removal of the Cathedra} School for Boys amounted at the week-end to just over $84,000, That leaves less than $16,000 to be collected to reach the six-figure mark and get. within two-thirds of the $150,000 for which the organizers ask. "It would splendid if this week could sce the collection of that $16,000. The meeting to be hold on June 4 would receive a wonderful stimulus if by that ate the fund stood at $100,000. 'There is no reason why such an achieve ment should be impossible. In English money $16,000 is only about £930 and, as the published lists show, the full' weight of many British firms has not yet been felt. Individual subscriptions from private supporters within the limit of their means. will do much to encourage prompt. gen-ersity. Dogmatic assertions regard ing the ability of this or that individual to add to the Fund are quite unjustifiable, No-one but the wearer knows where the shoes pinch and munificence is not to be measured merely by the mathematical standard It is only possible tomake the general suggestion that the British community aga whole should regard this opportunity as specially deserving of {is sympathetic and practical support, for material as welt as sentimental Feasons, At the same time it may not be inappropriate to observe that leadership has already been given by some important firms. The essence the Fund's success must be promptness and ready endorsement of British solidarity in Shanghai. Therefore it hoped that certain obvious gaps in the subscription list will be filled in the course of the next few days by contributions from some of those Coronation An oficial picture taken Elizabeth, with Princess large Interests which specially pride themselves on, and benefit from, their British status. Beyond that general observation it is impossible to go. In regard to the meeting fixed for June 4, the mere fact that the scheme is to be discussed by the community as a whole docs not Justify suspension of interest in the Fund. Indeed the discussions. are likely to be all the more fruitful of result if the next few days see a marked drive for contributions, Is it of possible for the community bestir itself to this end?
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