EX-SOLDIERS' RELIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 148, 26 June 1933, Page 11

EX-SOLDIERS' RELIEF

SUSTENANCE FOR UNEM-

PLOYED

'•..' (By Tolcgraph.) (Special to the ."'Evening Post.")

M'ASTEETON, This Day.

\ Arrangements'' have been, made by the- Wairarapa U.S.A. toj issue sustenance.orders to unemployed ex-service-, men. These will.be available -to all registered unemployed married exservicemen iv Masterton who! satisfy the B.S.A. that they have resided;in; Masterton --for three months preceding the'date of application and who meet with the approval of the/association. The orders are limited to : £l each for June, but'allocations will be arranged monthly; Single ex-service men who comply 'with the residential qualification and who have been declared :by the Hospital Board medical officer to be unfit for'employment, in camp may: obtain a sustenance order of 10s. In the'ekso of ex-servicemen in Cartertony Greytown,: Featherston, and Martinborough, allocations are being made on''exactly tho same, basis. •-, Outlining the above scheme, Mr. A. E., Prentice, secretary of tho Wairarapa; E.S.A., stated that 'arrangements wero alsp, being; madel to;providb, free "beds for indigent men who had no home of their own.' 'Negotiations were under, ■way to provide the necessary facilities.; Kef erring to;the money spent by the: association for the relief of ex-service-: 'men, Mr.; Prentice said that' in 1931! £610' and last year £767- was so 'expended,, and'it was11 expected that this year those figures would, bo exceeded.