VALUABLE WORK

Evening Post, Issue 122, 26 May 1933, Page 9

VALUABLE WORK

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

ACTIVITIES IN DUNEDIN

(By Telegraph.) (Special to. the "Evening Post") , DUNBDIN, This Day. At the annual meeting of the Qtago Patriotic and Welfare Association, the chairman of the Soldiers' and Dependants' Welfare Committee said that it was now seventeen years since the committee had been established,'and as the years went on the greater became the; need for the work the committee was doing. ■-■ It was a tribute to the policy laid down when the-fund was started that the end of the war would not see the end of the claims coming before, them. During the year £3215 had been given in assistance of returned men m various grants, bringing the total expenditure to £193,933 since the fund was started. The balance in hand was now down to £45,000. Tho work being dono by tho disabled men established in business was very satisfactory. The committee had also helped the Flock Houso scheme for the training of sons of returned men tor farming work. Fifteen, boys had been trained last year. - The uncriiploye'd work under the control of the Keturued Soldiers' Association was meeting with satisfactory results, and the committee had been able to make grants to assist men. A gratifying feature this year- was the decrease in the, number of cases of sic^ ness coming before them.