WAR RELIEF

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11663, 30 October 1923, Page 7

WAR RELIEF

MEETING OF ASSOCIATION ‘■‘WOULD BE BURNING CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS,” FI NDS TO LAST FIVE YEARS. At the mooting of the Wellington 'Var Relief Association, held vesterdav afternoon. Mr \ O. H. Tripp (chairman) prodding, thorn were also prosent* Colonel G. Mitchell, and Messrs C. M. I.uko, 8. Kirkoaldie, and W lerguson. Ino finance committee reported that einee the previous meeting it had dealt With six applications, each involving t\ euni in excess af £SO. Four of those were old ease* that had been previously dealt with, but required revision in respect of alterations of conditions, of re*payment; the remaining two were now applications, and both were approved. Iho total value of the dx applicationa , rA’ferTed to wa s £llO3 Gs Bd, comprised of old cases, £O5l propci ty, £3(X): commercial, £351 63! Bd); new cases', £4.50 (residential pro* I perty, £250; commercial, £200). The statements of accounts shelved that the expenditure for the month | euding September 30th, 1923, tra*: Fix- | penditure. £B4O 16s 2d; income, £O SO | 0s 7d; and the exceaS cf expendituio I paid out of capital account, £2lO LSe 7d. |

The bank balances on September 30th totalled £1289 10s 8d ; the investmenty £35,500; and the total available funds, £36,819 10s 8d: Replying to a question by Colonel .Mitchell, the scoretarv (Mr A. O. Leach) stated that 4he association had •spent £120.000 in «i.x years, and now .bad sonic £35,000 left. Tliat amount Would probably last five years longer; but *be wastage towards the close would be the greatest. They would, he burning tliei candle at both end*. LaM. month the excess- of expenditure over income was only about £2lO ; but vllis mouth it would be some £ISOO. owing to tho fact that about £I3OO in loans granted a few’ weeks ago came to charge this- month.

!j, 25ft CASES IN 24 DAYS ; ! beci rring disabilities. ;i . | The application's nod emergency committee reported that during the 24 -) 'working days iir September there had been 259 ea*=e= under action. Of these. 135 were new and 224 old cases; whilst there were 115 cases still under action. The remainder, comprising 144. cases a.nd embodying 157 applications, were disposed of by the committee, who met ✓,n 20 occasions during- the month. “Your committee (added the report) is still called upon to supplement the pensions of disabled soldiers, many of whom are still being sent to hospital on j account of recurring war disabilities ; j and others have been, thrown out of em- | ploymenfc as. the. result of the prevailing I depression, and are. therefore, unable ito maintain themselves and their dei pendents on their war pensions. Many |of the men demobilised fit “A.’ 5 are ©till i applying to you for financial assistance, j generally in the direction of provision ; of board- and lodging pending their abil* : ity to obtain employment; and. your • committee, although sympathetic, is not (always able to* rjrant assistance, as, in I view of our rapidly diminishing resources, our funds must necessarily he [reserved for disabled men. j “There has been no alteration of the ! general activities of vour committee., assistance differing widely in description has been given to partially-dis-abled soldiers, to others who were discharged fit, and .subsequently developed a war disability, to the widowed mQthem and. widows of soldier.? who fell in action, and in other directions that cannot he referred to within the limits of this report.” The secretary remarked: tha-t the 259 raises dealt with during the month represented 30 per cent, more than had been dealt with during the past two • years. j