AID FOR EX-SOLDIERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23222, 16 December 1938, Page 12

AID FOR EX-SOLDIERS

RELIEF OUTLAY REDUCED DEPLETION OF RESOURCES NATIONAL COUNCIL'S POLICY A drastic reduction in the sum to be expended, on the relief of sick and wounded and unemployed ex-service men is being made by the National War Funds Council, according to advice received by the executive of the Auckland Provincial Patriotic and War Relief Association yesterday. This decision was made, it was stated, in view of the council's depleted re sources, the responsibility that would have to be met in the near future and the greatly improvt-d economic position.

"The policy of this relief is to assist sick and unfit men not in receipt" of a pension and who are unemployed,'' the letter said. "Assistance to men travelling from town to town should be curtailed. Allocations are generally and as near as possible based on registrations, and it has been decided that no grant will be allotted where the number of unemployed ex-soldiers does not exceed five. It is held that the local associations can well care for so small a number out of their own hinds."

Tho letter was received, the president, Sir James Gunson, stating that the council's decision meant that tho association would receive smaller amounts during th«> year.