HELP FOR BARRISTERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24133, 27 November 1941, Page 11

HELP FOR BARRISTERS

MEN ON WAR SERVICE NEW SOUTH WALES PLAN SYDNEY, Nov. 23 A plan to assist members of tlic New South Wales Bar who are on active service will be considered at a general meeting of members of the Bar. It is proposed that each members ot the Bar shall pay to trustees of a special fund sixpence of every guinea received by him as professional fees: that the fund shall be vested in and administered by three trustees —members of the practising Bar —who will be nominated by the State AttorneyGeneral and the president of the council of the New South Wale.: Bar Association. The scheme sets out that the beneficiaries of the fund would be:—Barristers on active service abroad; those in camp who are to go on active service; those engaged in full-time military, naval, and air force service in Australia; those engaged in part-time service in Australia; and also those engaged in national war service other than military, naval, and air force service. The fund will be used to supplement the Service or other pay of each beneficiary so that he will receive in all an income of £SOO a year, or his average yearly income before cnterimc on Avar service (but not less than .C'2oo). whichever is the less. The trustees will have power to increase this figure if the funds collected permit.