NATIONAL WAR FUNDS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3169, 21 August 1917, Page 6

NATIONAL WAR FUNDS

MEETING OP THE COUNCIL. At Hie last meeting of the National War Funds Council there were present: Messrs. J. H. Gunson (Mayor of Auckland), J. H. Upton, .1. P. Luke (Mayor of Wellumton). W. E. Bntliune, Hugh Morrison, 11. Holland (Mayor of Christchurch "i, W. Recce, ,T. .T.Clark, (Mayor of Dunedin). .T. 0. M'Gruor. Messrs. Grimmoiid and Evans, representing tho Westland Advisory Committee, attended by invitation. Messrs. Griminond and Evans expressed their entire satisfaction -with the methods of administration of the Westland funds under tho control of the council, and Mr. Leaver also expressed tho satisfaction of iiis committee in regard to Jhe system of local administration and the "smooth working of existing arrangements, and said he wondered that a large number of other districts had not taVmi advantage of the sclicmo. The council dealt, -with an application from the heads of the. Public Service Departments to accept Ihe control and administration of ihc fund contributed by members of tho Service, at present uninvested. This fund, which now amounts to .em. r >. was rn-ieed sillily for (he. benefit of Civil Servants who may need assistance as a result of the war. Tho council resolved to accent (.lie fund, which will be administered indenpnc<">illy of any assistance irrnnted 'o such oßinprs bv way of pension or leliof from other patriotic sueielics. An advisory rennmitfee. consisting of M«s»v.=. J. Ttislop, Pone, Robie=o>i. ai"l TV. Anderson, has been appointed, find will draw from fiinn to lime funds r<Wred from tho council, *üb-eomini(toos of f.lio Civil Service Association be'"',' established in (lie different centres. The miction of invrsfnicnt of the council's funds in the War Loan was considered, and a committ"e appointed to interview Sir Joseph Ward on the matter.