RELIEF TO SEAMEN AND DEPENDANTS
SUM OF £163,578 SINCE 1921
Relief amounting to £6239 to disabled sailors and dependants of sailors incapacitated in tjie Great War, and £5143 towards the care and settlement of boy and girl dependants was paid during the two years ending on June 30 this- year by the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen' Fund, according to a report to a meeting of subscribers in Wellington yesterday. In his report, the chairman of the board of trustees (Mr E. Newman) said that since the start of operations of the fund in 1921, assistance to British seamen and dependants had been £.70,034 in grants to beneficiaries in New Zealand and overseas, and £93,544
in immigration, training, after-care, and settlement of boy and girl dependants—a total of £163,578. The total sums originally received by the trustees in subscriptions (less taxation of £34,988) was £201,835. and the total expenditure to June 30 of £163.578 left a balance of original subscriptions of £38,257.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22851, 26 October 1939, Page 3
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