UPPER HUTT EXPLOSION
ALLOCATION OF RELIEF FUNDS. Public subscriptions to the relief fund f or the sufferers by the disastrous explosion al Upper Huit last year, when eight lives were lost, brought in a sum of £1495 14s 3d. Out of this amount up to 19th January, 1915, the amount expended was £319 5s 6d, leaving a balance of £1176 9s 9d. The Mayor of Wellington (Mr. J. P. Luke), the Mayor of Miramar (Mr. F. Townsend), and Mr. P. J. O'Regan, acting as a committee, ha.ye decided to hand the balance over to the Public Trustee with recommendations as to disbursement over a period, of five years. At the end of that time it is believed that the children will be of a wage-earning age. One family, consisting of a widow and four young children I ranging from one to seven years, will leceive £85 per annum, and two, consisting respectively of ti widow and a boy of fourteen, and of a widow with four children (two only partially dependent) will be paid £52 per annum each. These three families receive certain superannuation benefits. The fourth family consists of an invalided husband with a wife and five young children. The sum of £100 per annum has been allowed for this case.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1915, Page 4
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212UPPER HUTT EXPLOSION Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1915, Page 4
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