POST WAR DISTRESS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11249, 29 June 1922, Page 5

POST WAR DISTRESS

tf INCREASING DEMANDS ASSISTANCE GIVEN FROM PATRIOTIC FUNDS. ASSOCIATION’S LIMITATIONS. The increasing demands being made upon the war relief funds is apparent from the fact, as recorded in the report of the applications committee to the war relief executive yesterday, that during the half-year ended May 30t-h, 1922, 65 per cent, more applications have been received than during the same period in 1921. This is partly accounted for by the prevailing depression and consequent unemployment, and partly by an increase in the number of claims lodged by men suffering partial disablement and by others becoming subjected to a recurrence of wax disability. In the former type of application (the report stated) it is not always possible for the committee to grant assistance, however sympathetic they might be, to a fit single man without dependents, for the association’s funds are not available as gratuities for war service and are not intended to cover unemployment or hardsliip inseparable from economic depression. Yet every endeavour has been made to assist not only the sick, wounded and incapacitated,” hut also to help those suffering hardship and loss, traceable more or less directly to tlieir war service.