SPAHLINGER TREATMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18563, 22 November 1923, Page 6

SPAHLINGER TREATMENT.

THE FINANCIAL PROBLEM.

PATRIOTIC FUND NOT AVAILABLE.

I Information •: has been received in Wellington from London '; to the .effect* that the New. Zealand v Government had .-'Ci declined to I authorise :| Sir James; -Allen, High Commissioner/; to/ contribute £1000 from - New Zealand Distress Funds/ in/London towards ft the assistance ;*>; of Mr. ■: Henri Spahlinger, who ; has » expended £80,000 in endeavouring to perfect -al vaccine for the cure of consumption, and who is now: a poor man.. * ■;-. " -, , --;.-;//.'- ; -/'< | Hie executive of the National "War Funds Council, in a statement just issued explains that the £8500 held in New Zealand Distress Funds in London : ? i formed the J balance : sof patriotic funds forwarded from/New Zealand for war purposes, which included the supply;? of V comforts to/New Zealand ;'•; soldiers, ;in distress;-or/on/,'fur* lough. As all New/* Zealand soldiers "had long since been: evacuated from;- England, the ; fund ( was ?no ? longer required ;;; there for the purposes for which it was>' sent, and, arrangements accordingly had been made (to/: bring 1 the money ;vback ,\ to New Zealand so '*_ that > it might ■be J;applied to the relief and assistance of ; - wounded: soldiers and their dependants here. Under the provisions of the War Funds Act it is laid down i that such funds i cannot %be diverted for any other purpose. Consequently no such grant as Sir James Allen desired could -be * authorised. /