WAR RELIEF

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3190, 14 September 1917, Page 3

WAR RELIEF

THETvELLINGTON ASSOCIATION. The War Relief Association of Wellington met yesterday afternoon. Mr. L. 0. H. Tripp presided. The Wellington officers of the Live Stock Branch of the Agricultural department offered to provide a setting of eggs for returned soldiers desiring to tnlce up poultry farming. .Tl-e committee decided to thank the officers for iußtioil'er. Tho Relief Committee repcired:—'TravtTng expenses of discharged soldiers returning to civil employment: Arrangements have been completed, through the courtesy of the Labour Department, whereby a supply of that department's official orders has been procured. Tlio 6(atioamasters at Lambton s;nd Thorndon, and the officers in charge of the Central Booking Office and the T-nrUt Bureau, have been authorised lo accept tiitse orders on the eignature of the secrotan of this association, a. ci.'tirge of 25 per. cent, of the cost of the railway liciiet being borne by the Labour reparlmeiit." Tlie number of cases dealt witii weoMy by the Relief Committee averages 80, whilst requests for advice, iniormation, etc.', are steadily inciting. Seme idea of the volume of work cuiried out by the committee may be gathered'from the inward and outward correspondence, which now exceeds 1250 letters per month, The secretary submitted the following statement r-Kecwpts and payments account Tor June: Imprest account, balance at bank, .£l6 13s. 9d.; war fund-account, balance at bank, ,£1712 17s. Ud. List of investments: ,£75,000. Funds as at August 31—Investments, £75,000; current accounts, i£1729 11s. Bd.; petty cash in hund, .£2O; tolCf, .£76,749 11s. Bd. Income and expeiluituro account for August: Expenditure, £SSb 13e. Ud.; income,^7l1 135.3d.; excess of expenditure over income paid out of capital, ,£284 os. Sd. AVithdrawal from Wax Fund account: It had been decided to transfer from the War Fund account the eum of ifilOOO to credit of the imprest account should same be necessary. Contributions since Tasf meeting of the executive: Mr. Martin Chapman, E.C., .£100; "rjladeyedlers,"' 3a." 3d.; Wellington Girls' College, .£4O; sundry contributions, .£3 163.'; total, .£239 19s. Bd. It was reported that tho sub-committee of the Advisory Board set up to consider the question of uniformity of relief recommended the following, which had been adopteu:—"(!) That there fhould be i<o grant by right of eervice in, money or kind, but that any grant in money or kind must be in the discretion of each ■ society taking eaoh case on iis merits. (2) That grants for mufti should he made only in deserving cases. (3) As it is impossible for all societies to make grants for taking up land or starting in business, it is recommended that no society makes large grants for either purpose."