Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 3. p. 591
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HEIFER SOLD FOR £650.
"Red Cross," Mr. Colebrook' s fat heifer, which has altogether raised £650 15s. 6d. for various funds. She has had quite an eventful history in the course of her charitable career, which is as follows:- She was purchased by Mr. W. M. Colebrook at the great Gift Sale in May, 1916, and kept until December, when the Earl of Northbrook kindly attended at the Reading Fat Stock Market and sold her as the gift of Mr. Colebrook. Prior to her sale she had already made £529 for Red Cross funds, and when sold by Lord Northbrook she raised another £121 15s. 6d., swelling the total to £650 15s. 6d. This magnificent total was distributed between the Agricultural Relief of Allies Fund, the Meat and Allied Trades Red Cross Fund, and th e Royal Berks Hospital as follows: -
Agricultural Relief of Allies Fund .................. £292 17 2
Meat and Allied Trades Red Cross Fund ... 292 17 1
Royal Berks Hospital ................................... 65 2 3
Mr. Anker Simmons' Appointments.
Rarely have so many honours and appointments befallen any gentleman in such a short space of time as those which have fallen to the lot of Mr. W. Anker Simmons, of Henley, head of the well-known firm of Mesrss. Simmons and Sons, auctioneers and estate agents. Mr. Simmons, who is one of the greatest authorities on agriculture in the country, was appointed as an expert on Lord Devonport' s Food Control Committee in January last, where
[Photo] MR. ANKER SIMMONS, J.P.
his special work was connected with feeding stuffs in connection with agriculture. A few months later he was honoured by the further appointment to a committee which was formed to consider the question of the production and distribution of milk, a subject of which he has a particularly wide range. A further proof of the value to his country of Mr. Simmons' extensive technical knowledge was forthcoming a few weeks later in his appointment to a committee constituted to advise the Ministry of Food on any question which might rise in regard to the marketing and distribution of the 1917 crops of grain and potatoes. On three occasions Mr. Simmons has been Mayor of Henley.
WOMAN WAR WORKER. - This young woman, Miss Doris Webley, of Yateley, Hants, for many months, in rain or snow, delivered bread daily, covering some thirty miles radius. She is here seen starting out on her rounds. Many thousands of loaves has she delivered during this period.
POPULAR PIERROTS. - The Lambourn Magpies, who have given successful entertainments at Lambourn and the neighbouring villages in aid of war charities.
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