DISTRESS RELIEF
PEOPLE OF PALESTINE PROVISION OF WORK (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY. Jan. 3. The High Commissioner of Palestine, Sir Harold McMichael, . reaffirmed to-day in Jerusalem good wishes for the conditions of Palestine that he expressed in a broadcast on December 30, and said these wishes marked the determination to take action to relieve distress in Palestine.
Sir Harold said he had reported to His Majesty’s Government that out of tlie earmarked balances and the increased revenue a sum of more than 250,000 Palestinian pounds could safely be devoted to the relief of distress and ought to be so devoted.
In the coming financial year, or earlier if necessary, among the free grants for relief, mostly in the form of work, would be distributed the following sum: For Arabs, £50,000, for small municipalities and local councils, to be spent on essential public works. He then referred to the grant-in-aid of £75,000 which the Government had already given this financial year to municipalities for necessary works which they themselves were unable to finance, and said that similar grants would be made in the coming year.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20137, 5 January 1940, Page 7
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