WAR RELIEF

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10085, 26 September 1918, Page 3

WAR RELIEF

MEETING OF ASSOCIATION

Various matters were discussed .at a meutiUK of the- War Kelief Association imd yesterday. Jlr L. O. H. Tripp l»eB The financial statement showed that the expenditure ior tho month of August was a;li'lu 17s 3d, and tho income X-SZi is Su - .„ . , The applications committee reported that it met on nine occasions gince last meeting of the executive and Jiaa dealt wilh 'Z4G applications. The report continued :—<■" We are receivine sucli a largo number of applications from soldiers having married overseas, who ask us to provide tnem with iurnituro, that as it is utterly impossible to grunt all such requests, it has been decided that, unitss exceptional circumstances can bt proved, such claims must be. declined ii favour of applications from soldier desirous of re-estab.ishim; a domesu. position broken up when enlistment occurred. ■lt has been, so frequently stated in the local press that free mcdicai boatment is extended, bv tho Wellington Public Hospital, to the dependents of so'.diers on active service, that the fact must bo (,'enerallv known; yet the number of claims for payment of private practitioners' accounts increases month bv month. • The committee has therefore decided that, as a general rule, such applications shall be declined, particularly so when the association has not been consulted prior to the- liability having been incurred." Donations wero received from Mr H. P. Raweon (£5 ss) and Mr B. T. Smith (£ll