AID FOR EX-SOLDIERS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11222, 30 May 1922, Page 4

AID FOR EX-SOLDIERS

MEN FROM OTHER DOMINIONS ASSOCIATIONS’ RESPONSIBILITIES An, interesting return, showing tho number of applications received by the nine principal war relief societies in the Dominion during tbo period January Ist to May ISth, 1922. from men who BCrved with units of the Allied armies other than the N.Z.E.F., was presented at yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington War Relief Association. The figures showing the Imperial, Australian and Canadian applications were as given below, while there should be included in the total one application from a South African and one from an Italian, making the total 226:

The chairman (Mr L. O. H. Tripp) drew tho attention of the committee to the large number of cases dealt with by the local association. A large proportion, he said, had of necessity been turned down. The secretary said that possibly Zo per cent, of the applications received from men who had served with the forces of other Dominions had been declined. ’Mr William Ferguson pointed out that the work attended to in Wellington constituted practjcally half that of the Dominion.

Imperial. a .3 a 1 < Cunadinn. i £ A uckland . 18 7 — *> Hawke’s Bay Napier, and braxutfiea .... . 19 3 1 2S Wangat-'.i — . s — *• kl&sterton . 10 — Gdeborne — Wellington .... . 83 20 7 1L! Christchurch . . 11 3 Danedin - 3 w Invercargill .. . 24 6 Totals ■ . 173 41 10 mm*