WAR RELIEF SOCIETIES' FEDERATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10117, 26 October 1917, Page 6

WAR RELIEF SOCIETIES' FEDERATION.

MEETING OF ADVISORY BOAHD. (Pbh Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 25. The Adtisory Board of the Patriotic War Belief Societies' Federation met today. The Minister of Defence wrote, stating that 11 was proposed to increase widowed mothers' allowances to 10s_ 6d, and raise tlie limit of income to 10s. Some time ago the Advisory-Board wrote the Minister of Defence urging' that the Financial Assistance Boa.rd.be empowered to assist sudors'and their dependents in the same way as soldiers and their dependents are now being helped. The Minister replied that the matter was si ill before Cabinet. The Board considered the Minister of Land's reply to its suggestions in reference to settling returned soldiers on the. land was most, satisfactory. Correspondence read showed that the Government were giving every consideration to lite question of technical training. The Ketunied Soldiers' Board considered the replies of Ministers to its rep.r'cseiltalions on the subject were satisfactory. A letter, believed lo bo from a member ol the Rifle Brigade, was read, urging that funds be given to supplement army rations M) as to "give greater variety of board. II was resolved to ask the Societies to send U250 now, and £250 in si\ months lime to meet, cases of the kind referred to bv the writer. 'The meeting passed a motion congratulating the Government upon its amended seal"'of separation allowances and cxpressi„nr the opinion thai Hie scale is as libera ■',, the circumstances of the Dominion will permit. 11 I