SEAMEN’S CHILDREN

Evening Star, Issue 19722, 24 November 1927, Page 3

SEAMEN’S CHILDREN

GASH GRANTS—£S4,OOO BOYS AND GIRLS MAKING GOOD [Per United Press association.] WELLINGTON, November 23. Tile seventh annual meeting of the New Zealand Sbccpfarmers’ Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen Fund was held to-day, the chairman (tho Hon. E. Newman, M.L.C.) presiding. The annual report disclosed a most satisfactory state of affairs. Consideration ivas given to 07 applications for financial assistance, and grants amounting to £1.043 10s 2d were authorised to disabled sailors and dependents of sailors who had died as tho result of injuries received during the war. During the same period the London Advisory Committee considered 104 applications, making grants amounting to £843 2s 4d. ' The total cash grants to date amount to £54,192 Is lid. The trustees had now brought out some 400 boys and girls, 314 of whom wore now settled upon farms in the dominion. The Chairman said tho -fund had had to face • heavy taxation. • Tho amount actually subscribed was £240,000. Out of'this between £53,000 and £60,000 had been expended in assisting relatives of seamen illed or incapacitated by the war. Tho fund had had to pay land tax amounting to £1,700, and income tax totalling £35,000. None of the hoys had drifted to the cities. Ho urged the Government to follow some such scheme in bringing out immigrants. Tt was stated that tho actually saved in cash by boys and girls of Flock House amounted to £7,000, and in addition many boys had invested hi substantial life, insurance policies. Added to this a sum of nearly £3,000 stands to the credit of both hoys and girls as accrued pension money.