The Canadian Red Cross Society at their Annual Meeting, held in Toronto in 1917, decided to ask the different Provinces to raise certain sums of money during the year. Two hundred thousand dollars was named for Nova Scotia, but the Finance Committee knowing full well that the people of the Province would gladly contribute to the Red Cross War Fund raised the objective to $250,000, and then started to work under the able direction of Mr. J. L. Hetherington and Mr. H. E. Mahon. Committees of citizens were formed in all the counties, and a complete organization arranged, with the result that every county “went over the top,” and the total amount contributed was $343,701.77. From this was deducted $9,525.37 for expenses in connection with the campaign, leaving the net amount of $334,176.40 to the Red Cross Society. Never did men and women from one end of the Province to the other work more enthusiastically, and never did our people contribute more liberally than to this appeal from “the Greatest Mother in the World.” The following amounts were raised in the several counties: Counties— Annapolis $9,713 54 Antigonish 5,598 33 Cape Breton 42,150 29 Colchester 20,444 29 Cumberland 20,196 46 Digby 4,464 04 Guysboro 5,521 24 Halifax (City) 110,416 87 Halifax (County) 15,425 31 Hants 10,340 00 Inverness 2,903 67 Kings 10,650 00 Lunenburg 14,446 47 Pictou 40,235 27 Queens 6,341 61 Richmond 2,332 47 Shelburne 7,500 00 Victoria 2,463 38 Yarmouth 11,510 36 Special 1,048 17 ——————————— Total $343,701 77 Expenses 9,525 37 ——————————— Final Total $334,176 46 The expenditure for the year 1918 included: Purchase of materials, hospital supplies, etc $38,700 04 Sundry Supplies 1,218 32 Comforts to City Military Hospitals and Hospital Ships 9,331 67 Special objects designated by remitters 4,158 53 Remittances to Head Office, Toronto 325,931 70 Office Expenses and wages at Pier 2 2,746 49