PARLIAMENT

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 August 1924, Page 5

PARLIAMENT

CONTROL OF WAR, FUNDS. AN AMENDING BILL. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 19. The House of Representatives met at- 2.30 p.m. The Hon. TV. Downie Stewart moved the second reading 0 f the War Funds Amendment Bill. In doing so he stated that the incorporation of the National War Funds Council was the object of the measure. The War Funds was set up by an Act of 1915 and was empowered to take oi er the. administration of local war funds if requested to do so by the trustees of the latter. The Act was amended in the three succeeding years, and the process was now carried still further by providing machinery for the vesting of property in the council and the administration of trusts. T - K. Sidey (Dunedin South) said he did not think anyone could take exception to the general principles of the Bill, but he thought the Minister ought to have given the House some information regarding the various funds administered by the council. h : , Monteith (Wellington East) advocated closer supervision of r-il-!/-wwi een unds ' n °w amounting to The Minister in reply, said the canteen tunas did not come under the control of the council. 'Hie canteen fund was controlled by a separate loard. As to Red Cross funds; these funds were subscribed for specific, purposes, and unless there was an alteration of the law the funds must be administered according to the law Re garding the position of the war funds, he had not the latest figures to hand, but he would endeavour to give them to the House when the Bill was i„ committee. The Bill was read a second time.