COMFORTS FOR SOLDIERS
MENTAL HOSPITAL PATIENTS GRANT FROM RED CROSS FUND A grant of £25 a month for ono year has been made by the joint committee of the British Red Cross and Order of St. John toward providing comforts for returned soldiers, who are patients in the Auckland Mental Hospital as a result of war disability. The president of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association, Mr. J. W. Kendall, said yesterday that while the association was grateful for the grant, the money would not provide comforts for returned soldiers in all hospitals. What the association was working for was a grant sufficient to cover men in all institutions. While it was felt that mental patients had first claim, the other men should not be ignored, he said. They would have to be helped by the association's own funds as in the past. The fact that the drain on those funds had been lessened by £25 a month was gratifying, but there was still the need for supplementary assistance, as the funds of the association were not increasing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22428, 26 May 1936, Page 12
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177COMFORTS FOR SOLDIERS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22428, 26 May 1936, Page 12
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