DWINDLING FUNDS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 56, 30 November 1923, Page 9

DWINDLING FUNDS

SVAR RELIEF ASSOCIATION ME£T FIRST?’’ ' The Wellington War Relief Association met yesterday. Mr. L. 0. H. Tripp presiding. There were also preeent Messrs. C. M. Luke, G. Atitchell, IX McLaren, A. Mcliitosh, C. Watson, W. A. Veitch, and W. Ferguson. The report of the Finance Committee showed that tho expenditure for October was £1754 14s. 9d., and the income £1342 Os. sd. 3bo total value of the cases dealt with, was £1903 9s. Ud., comprised of:—Did cases, £1603 Sa. lid. (residential property £705 6s. lid., commercial -£oso. agricultural £3OO, and domestic £4B 35.); new cases, £3OO (all residential). The available funds totalled £36,000 lie. MW. The Applications Committee reported that 290 cases had been under ac■fTon since the previous report, < f which 25 were new and 255 old, and there were 92 cases still under action, Since October 29 jhe Emergency Committee had met 23 times, and dealt with 117 of thp above cases. Three hundred and thirty-one persons had called nt |the office, of whom 220 applied for direct assistance, and 111 for indirect (assistance. . “Your committee is still called up>bn,” says the report, “to supplement tie pensions of disabled soldiers, many tef whom are still being sent to hospital on account of recurring war disabilities, and others have been thrown out of employment as the result of the prevailing depressions, and are therefore unable to maintain themecilves and their dependants on their war pensions. Many of the men demobilised fit “A” arc still applying for financial assistance, generally in the direction of provision of board and lodging pending their ability to obtain employment. Tho committee, although sympathetic, is not always able to grant assistance, as, in view of cur rapidly diminishing resources, cur funds must necessarily bo reserved for disabled soldiers. Assistance differing widely in description has been given |to partially disabled soldiers, to others Who were discharged tit, and subsequently developed a war disability, to the widowed mothers and widows of soldiers who fell in action, -and ill ether directions.'' I The reports were adopted.