Our Aberdare Fund-L8,926 19s. 'id. so far - Tlu following

list represents subscriptions to the SPECTATOR Aberdare Fund received up to the first post on Tuesday, January 29th, 1929, All remittances (which should be addressed to the Editor, The SPECTATOR, 13 York St., Covent Garden, London, W.C.2) should be made payable to the SPECTATOR Ltd., and crossed "Aberdare %." 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 Ron. 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. The Rev. the Hon.

Edward V. R. Powys 105 0 0

" Deam " .. 60 0 0 Anonymous .. 50 0 0 "I. F. S." . 20 0 0

S. W. Bowne 13 0 0 " The Parish of Spaxton " 7 0 0 Anonymous .. • . ; 5 5 0 Alfred S. Chinnock .. 5 5 0 Mr. and Mrs. John

Hampton Barnes 5 2 1 B. C. Maxwell .. 5 0 0 L. O. Loofa 5 0 0 Major and Mrs:. Hughes 5 0 0 Miss Lee 5 0 0 Mrs. G. M. Rogers .. 5 0 0

"C. M. T." .. . 5 0 0 Mr. & Mrs. E. S. Ewart 5 0 0 Miss Kenyon 5 0 0 Miss E. Beatrice Lover-

ing 5 0 0

R. Emmerson . • 5 0 0 Mrs. V. Arkwright • . 5 0 0 G. Bonham Carter • • 5 0 0 W. p. . . • • 5 0 0

" A. L." • • • 6 0 0 Amount sent. Name. £ s. d. Mr. & Mrs. A. E. Wells 5 0 0

"B." 5 5 0 0

Miss Madeline J. Walker 5 0 0 C. M. Skinner .. .3 3 0 J., W. Cathcart . 3 3 0 M. 0. Withof-Kent- Fletcher _ Misa Gertrude L. Wallis 3 0 0 Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Crofton " Goytre " " M. A." Miss Sara J. Stewart ..

Mr. & Mrs. A. G. Mullins

" Reader M." T. T. Swancoat.

E. P. Stroud . • Laurence Clay .. A. D. Francis .. M. B. R."

" S. M. L." .. Miss A. M. Blackden " H. E. A." .. Venerable Archdeacon E. D. Atkinson .. 3 3 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 o 0 Amount sent. Name. £ a. d. Lt.-Col. C. D. Noyes .. 2 0 0 " L E. B." 2 0 0 " D. E. W." • • 2 0 0 " H. M. B." .. 1 10 0

T. Botting 1 10 0

" T. Exeter "1 1 0 " A Friend " 1 1 0 Miss J. S. Henderson. 1 0 " Alassio "1 0 0 Mrs. G. Nickalls 1 0 0 Miss K. M. Anderson.. 1 00 Miss Walker .. • 1 0 0 J. E. Sherwood .. 1 0 0 " Pair of Skates £1 " 1 0 0 The Rev. A. R. Wise- "H. F." A. J. Hawes Mies M. Thornton Smith M. I. Johnston 0. Sydenham " Grateful " Anonymous .

" F. S. B. H." .. • • Mrs. Thompson" " L. M. L.'• • 1 0 0 1 0 0 -1-.0' 0- 1 .0 0

O 19 10 O 12 6 O 10 0 O 10 0

O 10 0 0 10. 0

O 5 0 Amount sent Name. s. d Bolney Women's In- stitute 0 6 0

" F. C. I. B." 0 5 0

" Karshish " .. 0 6 0

Readers wishing to forward CLOTHING AND OTHER GIFTS IN KIND for our Aberdare Puna are requested to send them direct to the Hon. Secretary, Aberdare Service Committee, Town Hall, Aberdare, marked " Specintor 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.

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 fifth 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. - Anonymous, £20 (5s. each weekly for four families for 20 weeks). Anonymous, £13 (10s. each weekly for two families for 13 weeks). Anonymous, £12 (56. each weekly for four families for 12 weeks). Rev. L. P. Johnson, £10 10s. (5s. each weekly for three families for 14

weeks). Lady Toulmin and Miss Toulmin, £10 10s. (5s. each weekly for two families . for. 21 weeks). . . Dr. and Miss Du Buisson, £10 (5s. each weekly for four families for 10 ' weeks).

Anonymous, £10 (5s. each weekly for two families for 20 weeks). Mrs. W. T. Dickson, £10 (5s. each weekly for two families for 20 weeks). John Aspell, £10 (5s. each weekly for two families for 29 weeks). Anonymous. £10 (5s. each weekly for ten families for 4 weeks).

Ivor Sant, £10 (5s. each weekly for fOur families for 10 weeks).

Wm. F. Stiff, £10 (5s. each weekly for four families for 10 weeks). " Kobe, Japan," £10 (5s. each weekly for four families for 10 weeks). - " W. G. A.," £10 (5s. each weekly for two families for 20 weeks). Mrs. Francis Cadogan, flO (5s. each weekly for four families for 10 weeks). Mrs. J. H. Allan, £10 (5s. each weekly for two families for 20 weeks). " F. S.," £9 15s. (5s. each weekly for three families for 13 weeks). "The Rose Tree," £8 (5s. each weekly for two families for 16 weeks), Anonymous, £7 10s. (5s. each weekly for three families for 10 weehe). The Misses Jane, Betty and Mary Maxwell, £6 lbs. (5s. each weekly Uot

three families for 9 weeks). •

Mr. Sc Mrs. W. J. Stewart and Family, £8 10s. (108. weekly for one family for 13 weeks). -

" E. 8.. M.," £6-(58, each weekly for two families for 12 weeks). • Mrs. M. E. Gray, £6 (5s. each weekly for four families for 6 weeks). R. 3: C. Garrett, 26 (5s. weekly for ene family for 24 weeks).

t` In Memory of yr., A. W.," 5s. (5s. each weekly for two families for 9 weeks).

Miss A: H. Symonds, £5 5s. (5s. weekly for one family for 21 weeks). " Wellwisher," £5 (5a. weekly for one family for 20 weeks).

C. Lawson-Barnes, £5 (10s. weekly for one family for 10 weeks).

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. M. Hoes, .£5 (Bs. weekly.for one family for 20 weeks). W. H. A. Cowell, £5 (5s. each weekly for two families for 10 weeks). Miss V. M. Beetle; £5 (5s. each weekly for two families for 10 weeks). Miss Muller, £5 (5s. each weekly for two families for 10 weeks). Robert ThOrburn, £5 (5s. weekly for one family for 20 weeks).

Mrs. March, £5 .(108. weekly for one family for 10 weeks). -

Miss A. E. Lewis, £5 (5s. weekly for one family for 20 weeks).

R. J. 'Burch, £5-(5s. weekly for'one fandly for 20' weeks).-

Mrs. M. Chaplin, £5 (5s. each weekly for two families for, 10 weeks). Miss H. V. Bevan, £5 (5s. weekly for one family for 20 weeks). Mks E. Beatrice Lovering, £5 (5s. weekly for one family for 20 weeks).

Anonymous, £5 (5s. weekly for one family for 20 weeks).

Miss M. E. Savile, £5 (5s. weekly for one family for 20 weeks). Captain Walter Scott Elliot, £4 10s. (5s. each weekly for two families for 9 weeks).

" J. W.," £4 (5s. each weekly for two families for 8 weeks).

Miss M. Beatrice Counsell, £3 5s. (5s. weekly fer one family for 13 weeks). Anonymous, Hawick, £3 58. (5s. -weekly for one family for 13 weeks).

Mrs. .1. N. Tod, £3 5s. (5s. weekly for one family for 13 weeks).

Harriet Lady Cooper, £3 5s. (5s. weekly for one family for 13 weeks).

George Weston, £3 5s. (5s. weekly for one fainily for 13 weeks). • Mrs. Gresford Jones, £3 5s. (5s. weekly for one family for 13-weeks). " E. J. L.," £3 (58. each weekly for three families for 4 weeks). Anonymous; Edinburgh, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). " A. M. J.," g3 (50. weekly for, one family for 12 weeks).

" M. D. S.," £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). Miss Mary Sainsbury, £3 (Se. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

Miss M. E. D. Josteker, £2, (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

Miss Evelyn Munro, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 Weeks).

G, E. Jeff, £3 (5s. weekly for one family. for 12 weeks).

Mr. and Mrs. H. Gordon Clark, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

Fred. E. -Midgley, -£3 (5a weekly for one family for 12 weeks):

F. Atkinson, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). • Mrs. Fowle, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). Mrs. 0 Middlemas Hunt, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

Rev. T. Evershed and Mni. Evershed, '53 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). • Miss May Newsom, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). Rear-Admiral W. Tomkinson, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

" E. A. F.," £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). " E. M. L.," £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

E Nowell ffarington, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks).

Mrs. Frances C. Denny, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). Mrs. Mary Bait Kerr, £3 (5s. weekly for One family,for 12 weeks). Miss N. K. Alexander, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 Weeks).

Anonymous, £3 (5s. weekly for one family for 12 weeks). Mrs. Hastings, £2 10s. (5s. weekly for one family for 10 weeks). Miss Flora Haigh, £2 10s. (5s. weekly for one family for 10 weeks). Rev.. E. H. Dunkley, £2 10s. (5s. weekly for one family for 10 weeks). " Palamos," £2 10s. (5s. weekly for one family for 10 weeks). " D. E. L.," £2 10s. (5s. weekly for one family for 10 weeks). Miss G. M. Dawson, £2 10s. (5s. weekly for one family for 10 weeks). " Hitherto," £2 10s. (5s. weekly for one family for 10 weeks). Mrs. Ellen Pinnell, £2 5s. (5s. weekly for one family for 9 weeks). " A. M.,B. S.," £2 5s. (5s. weekly for one family for 9 weeks). " H. W. A.," £2 'Ss. (5s. weekly for one family for 9 weeks). " In Memoriam of E. D. A.," £2 5s. (5a weekly for one family for 9 weeks). Anonymous, £2 5s. (5s. weekly for one family for 9 weeks). Katherine Lady Baker Wilbraham (2rid instalment), £2 Zs. (Os. weekly

. for one family for 9 weeks).

Anonymous, £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks). Mrs. J. K. Thacker, £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks). " K F. T.," £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks). Fred. Hadlen, £2 (Ss. weekly for one family for 8 weeks). " Edinburgh Reader," £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8, weeks). Mrs. Winder, £2 (6s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks). Mrs. Norton, £2 (Os. weekly for one family for 8 weeks). F. A. James, £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks). M. E. James, £2 (Se. weekly for one family for 8 weeks). Mrs. Robie Uniacke, £2 (Ss. each weekly for two families for 4 weeks).

Mrs. Digby Lighton, £2 (5.s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks).

Miss Ley Bewley, £2 (5s: weekly for one family for 8 weeks).

" K. B.," £2 (Ss. weekly for one family for 8 weeks). " F. B. R.," £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks). ".R. and D. J.," £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks). " Hilmar," £2 (5s. weekly for one family for 8 weeks). " A. C.," £2 (5s. weekly for one fainily for 8 weeks). H.. J.," ,52 (58. weekly for one family for 8 weeks).

" C. D. E. M.," £1 15s. (5s. weekly for one family for the Lent weeks).

Anonymous C., £1 -(5s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks).

Anonymous, £1 (58. weekly for one family for 4 weeks). E: B: Haynes, £1 (5s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks). " A_Thankeffering for Jocelyn," £1 (5s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks,. " M. G. S.," £1 (5s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks). Miss Edith H. Scott; £1 (5s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks). Mrs. Lilian K Terry, £1 (Ss. weekly for one family for 4 weeks). Miss A. Trower, £1 (5s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks). H. M. Orbbar, £1 (5s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks).

" The Congregation of S. Cynon's, Fairbourne," £1 (5s. weekly for onu family for 4 weeks).

" J. IL W.," £1 (5s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks).

Miss G. A. Cathcart, £1 (5s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks). Grateful," £1 (5s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks).

" D. G. N.," £1 (58. weekly for one family for 4 weeks). . C. Mayne, £1 (5s. weekly for one family for 4 weeks).

" L. 0. T. S.," 15s. (5s. weekly for one family for 3 weeks). " Highway," 10s. (5s. each for two families for 1 week). " Inasmuch," 10s. (5s. weekly for one family for 2 weeks). Rev. and Mrs. I. R. Gillen, 55. (5s. for one family for one week). BM/E.P.L.O., 5s. (Se. for one family for one week). G. IL Clarke; 55. (5s. for one family for 1 week). Roger Falk, 5s. (Se. for one family for 1 week). Mrs. F.• A. Jones, 5s. (5s. for one family for 1 week). " A Business Girl," 55. (5s. for one family for 1 week).

Five hundred and ninety-four necessitous families are, by the generosity of our readers, now assured of assistance for a definite time. Out of 1,500 there remain 906 to be " adopted." Further consignments of clothing received at the SPECTATOR Office have been despatched to the Town Clerk qf Aberdare. They will be distributed at once by the Organizing Committee.