CANTEEN FUNDS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 50, 27 August 1932, Page 15

CANTEEN FUNDS

UNEMPLOYED RELIEF

MONTHLY GRANT

INCREASED

An increase of £500 a mouth in the grant made by the N.Z.E.P. Canteen and Regimental Funds Trust Board for tho relief of unemployment among returned soldiers was approved at the half-yearly meeting of the board yesterday. The previous grant was £1000 a month. The meeting was attended by MajorGeneral Sir Andrew Russell, chairman, Colonels A. E. Stewart, R. St. J. Beere) H. E. Avcry, and M. Aldred, Mr. R. B. Bell, and Major L. C. Porgie, secretary. Sir Donald McGaviu and Drs. H. T. D. Acland, D. S. Wylic, D. E. Penwick, and Marshall Macdonald are to be asked to act as an advisory commission to tho board on the question of the ex-soldiers' reasonable expectation of economic lifeIt was reported that the total funds, which last year had reached £207,000, had declined to £198,000. This retrogression was staled to be due to two main reasons. In the first place the previous year's income of approximately £11,000 had been reduced by over £1000 as the result of the provisions of the National Expenditure Adjustment Act. In the second place £15,000 had been devoted to unemployment relief among returned soldiers during the last twelve months, and with the commitments made for the same purpose the total funds will have been reduced to £192,000 to 31st" January next. Consideration was giveu to a request from the Dominion Council of the NewZealand Returned Soldiers 5 Association that the board, in addition to expending on_ unemployment relief all the interest it earned, should vote £20,000 from its capital for the same purpose. It was decided that for a period of sis months as from Ist September, 1932, tho present grant of £1000 per month should be increased to £1500 per month, that certain recommendations should bo made to the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association in respect of the allocation of the additional £500 monthly, and that the question should be further considered at the annual meeting of the board in February, 1933.