SICK AND WOUNDED FUND

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 429, 7 August 1915, Page 2

SICK AND WOUNDED FUND

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[to the editor.] [ Sir.—The public lias been asked to subscribe to build up a fund tor the benefit of our returned wounded soldiers, and 1 am sure every one feels that this matter must be taken up in real earnest anil sufficient funds must be provided from time to time to carry ir on for .an indefinite, period. The question has occurred lo me and others as to who the body is that is going to control the land ? Is it not time that an .administration committee was set up with a treasurer and secretary! Probably this has already been done. If so, it has escaped my notice in your columns. It seems to me that a meeting of subscribers ought to bo called to elect a committee and fix a boundary defining the operation of the fund, as I understand the money is for the benefit of our own local wounded. Thanking you in anticipation, —I am, etc.. WILLIAM BRIDGMAN. Hastings, 5,8'15. | A “Tribune" representative interviewed Mr. J. A. Irast-r. secretary of the Hastings Patriotic Committee, who states that the committee is now receiving and, holding all funds, including the Sick and Wounded Fund, pending a definite decision being come to, as to whether such funds shall be “pooled” and dealt with on a national basis, or on a miliary area basis or a purely local basis. These war funds have already been the subject of various; conferences held in Wellington,, to which the rnayois and officers of al! towns were invited, but the result of the last conference is not yet to hand. Meantime the Hastings Patriotic Committee has . addressed a letter to he patriotic committee of - Napier pointing out that the time has arrived when Hawke’s Bay should be organised, and asking Napier to call a meeting to decide how best this may be done. Mr. Fraser says the , Town Clerk officially informed him yesterday that a'meeting of the Napier Patriotic Committee would be held on M'.nday, when the letter from the Hastings Committee will be considered. A copy of the resolution dealing with the subject has alreadybeen published in these columns. In the meanwhile Mr. Fraser will receive contributions to the sick and wounded and any other fund, and will see that the money is devoted to the special purpose the contributors wish. Further reference, is made to this matter in our editorial columns. -Ed. H.B.T. I