NEW HOME FOR VETERANS
ESTIMATED COST OF £212,000 PATRIOTIC FUND BOARD PLANS •'The Press" Special Service WELLINGTON, November 22. The New Zealand Patriotic Fund Board has purchased an 11-acre section in Levin as a site for a new home for’ war veterans and disabled servicemen. It is hoped that plans will be approved before Christmas to enable tenders to be called in January or February, 1957. At the board’s annual meeting the chairman (Mr C. O. Bell) said the home, estimated to cost £212.000, would be designed to accommodate 104 residents—B4 in single rooms and 20 in a sick bay of five four-bed wards.
The total outlay of the board and the Canteen Fund Board on building projects on homes to date, and envisaged. was £BBO,OOO. Last year provincial councils spent £98,000 on welfare assistance.
During the last eight years, expenditure by headquarters and provincial councils on welfare assistance totalled £750,000. The accounts for the year showed an excess of expenditure over income of £10,700. Mr Bell was re-elected chairman and Mr W. S. Mac Gibbon was elected deputy-chairman.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28133, 23 November 1956, Page 12
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