SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND

A meeting of the Advisory Board of ; Nelson Sick and Wounded Soldiers and , their Dependents' Fund Society (incorporated), was held at the Mayor's room:. last evening. Present: Messrs H. Ever- .: ett, G. Robertson, D. R. E Allen (hon. treasurer), Rev. W. Baumber, aVlessrs W. W. Snodgrasa 'hon. secretary), and A. IX McFarlane (assistant Won. secretary). Mr Everett was voted to the chair. ' A letter was read from a soldier, stating that he had not received his pe*ri-i sion. The secretary explained that the-; non-payment was due to change of address. Mr T. W. Field, hon.. secretary of,, the Rockville Patriotic Society, drawing the attention of the board, to the fact that the parents of two soldiers on active service were in failing health,., and asking that some allowance bei made. Tt was resolved that the secre-. tary communicate with the Rockyilla : Cbmmitttee with a view to rendering . nscessary assistance. ; .. Mr W. Boyce. Hon. Secretary of ...the \.'_ Motueka Association, wrote i-ecommejid-, 'nc; that an allowance be made towards the medical and funeral expenses of a child, whose father was at the front.,; It was resolved to make an allowance . of 10s per week to the mother of a re-,, turned soldier who was in straitened circumstances.

A returned soldier, who is an inmate of the Victoria Hospital, Wellington,;.. wrote asking for assistance.—lt was rb«" solved to refer the case to the secretary of the Wellington Society for inquiry. An application for assistance from a man who had been discharged after two months in camp was declined. ■ n . It was resolved to make a 'grarit, of. £lO to a returned soldier who had been invalided after serving through the.' Gallipoli campaign and in France. A soldier who. left Nelson with the Main Body and was invalided to New Zealand from Egypt suffering from lung trouble and was now an inmate of _. fh'o. Waikato Sanatorium, was granted £lO. ; In making the application for assista'nce the soldier mentioned that all his brothers had been killed on the Western-:--:'.. front. ..,■'■ .'" It was resolved to pay the rent of the cottage occupied by two old people who «». have two sons, at the front. A grant of £2 a week for one month wa smade towards the payment of "the medical expenses of a returned soldier's wife. v Arising out of a report received frorn •e Central Advisory Board, it was ( to point out that the committee would be pleased to._ supply the board with all inforcnatibn in regard to the control and management of orchards, as Nelson was the; principal' orchard district in New Zealand.