BELGIAN RELIEF.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3252, 4 September 1917, Page 5

BELGIAN RELIEF.

By the Home mail just to hand we have rece:ved the report of the Nat:ona» Relief Committee for Be.gluin for the period ending 21s: May 1'.117. Inter a'.ja it states that from 19th May, 1917,. the United States Government ha- assumed linunciaj !'--|Kiii.-ii>i.it> ;tlie cost of relief io Belgium and that appeal* to the Briti-h Empire would be .-uspeuded a- from Juii", 1.-t. The Nationa. committee. had ix-en in existence for 20 months and during that period £2. 411,222 is- 2d ha I been .-üb.-crlbed approximately £IOH,otX) a month, of thi- amount. New Zca : and contributed iloO.") «s IM, which works out at. 9s 2) per capital o f popu'ati<>n_ A tribute i- paid to the u I hearted support of the pre-s of the Briti.-h Empire without who.-e. <•;- forts the measures adopted to h-cup* contributions would have ha 1 but meagre re-ults. In a circular letter the American authorities alv-e the committee to cancel all pledges made for future payments and sugge.-t that money paid in advance on account of maturing pledges .-mould be re funded.