DISTRESSED MINERS.
RELIEF FUND CLOSED. SUBSCRIPTIONS IN BRITAIN. Australian Press Association—United Service LONDON, April 30.
The fund of the Lord Mayor of London for the relief of distressed miners has been closed at £843,440. To that sum the Government will add an equal amount.
The Lord Mayor's fund for the relief of distress on the coalfields of Britain was opened in April, 1928. and £92,000 was subscribed between then and the beginning of November, when a fresh appeal was made to the public. In the middle of December the Government announced the pound for pound contribution by the State. On Christmas Day the Prince of Wales broadcast his appeal, and at the end of January he made a tour in the mining areas of Northumberland and Durham.
This summer the demands upon the fund will be lessened, and there will probably be available at the beginning of next winter a sum far in excess of what has been spent during the past winter. In the meantime the central committee of the fund will be able to undertake a survey of local needs and estimate the requirements more thoroaghly than has been possible hitherto when there has been comparatively little information to go upon. Before next winter a more systematic method of working may have been evolved as a result of the practical experience of the local committees, which are said to vary enormously in efficiency and, apparently also, in their appreciation of the part that the fund can play—and is intended to play—in ameliorating the conditions of life in the distressed areas. The activities of the fund were enlarged in February, so that in the areas of acute distress they included the following:—Provision of boots and clothing for women and children; assistance by special grants (a) in cases of illness or accident: (b) to enable the recipient (male or female) to accept fresh employment; assistance in school feeding; provision of extra nourishment to families; assistance toward the transfer of young persons; assistance in certain matters in connection with emigration and transfer work; and assistance in the cultivation of allotments
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20244, 2 May 1929, Page 13
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349DISTRESSED MINERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20244, 2 May 1929, Page 13
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