"WAR CHARITIES"
"Charitable aid" is the term that has been used to designate the spending of a portion of patriotic fu^ids. It is complained that the Government has been leaning upon those funds. In this connection the annual report of the Department of Internal Affairs has the following remark :—"Patriotic funds raised in the United Kingdom for relief or distress caused through the war are designated 'war charities,' and come under the control of the Charity ComimissioneEs, who deal with charities in general. In the last report of the Charity Commissioners dealing with patriotic funds or war charities the following remarks appear : 'The experience of the working of this Act during the short period it has been in operation has convinced us of ■the great value of, some such control as that afforded by the Act over the charities supported by voluntary contributions; and we hope that the success of this experiment in the case of a limited class of charity may lead eventually to farther legislation on the subject, by means of which th© administration of charities of every descriptioijL may be strengthened and safeguarded in the public interest.' 1 This might also be written regarding the control over war funds exercised in the Dominion."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 138, 7 December 1918, Page 7
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