LIBERATOR VICTIMS.
No fewer than 3,353 sufferers from the failure of the " Liberator "Building Society, whose losses aggregated £793,463, have applied for help to the "Liberator" Relief Fund, according-to the ■'■fourteenth annual report of the fund. Threefourths of this number were widows or spinsters between sixty and seventy years of a,r;o. All but sixty-five were found to bo eligible—that is, either des-' titute or somi-destitute. ; . .A total of 33,118 grants have been'made to them, being an average of 2,365 grants .per year. This has absorbed nearly £121,000, including the ' expenses of gathering and disbursing' the fund, which have always been kept very, low.j Nearly a-thousand*who were receiving grants have died. Many who only had temporary assistance at first are now" compelled to seek permanent relief from the fund, so that there aw si ill, nearly 1,000 who are regularly receiving halfr yearly grants. -■■ .:■■:■■*■- -■•■•-%
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxix, Issue 7240, 27 July 1907, Page 1
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