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WELLINGTON, February 17. The annual report and balance sheet of the N.Z.E.F. Canteen and Regimental Funds Trust Boards, shows total funds at February 1, 1930 as £203,921/13/8, of which £202,889 is invested at the average rate interest of £5/11/8 per cent. The income and expenditure account shows expenditure for the year ending February 1 of £2OOO to the Trentham Scholarship Fund for education of children of deceased and disabled soldiers, making a total of £9,979/10/. to date for this purpose. Grants towards relief of unemployment among returned soldiers totalled £4,700 for the year, making the total to date of £11,200. Compassionate grants for relief of distress in cases which could not be met from local patriotic and other funds, or by pension, totalled £154/7/6 for the yea)’, making a total to for this purpose of £3,430/2/1. At its meeting the Board passed a. resolution urging the Government to make public the report of the Royal Commission on the rehabilitation of returned soldiers at the earliest possible date, in order that ample time may be given to the many interested organisations for the study of its recommendation before it is presented to Parliament.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1930, Page 9
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