WAIRARAPA RELIEF FUND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10267, 26 January 1895, Page 6

WAIRARAPA RELIEF FUND.

(Fes United Press Association.)

Wellington, January 25.

At a meeting of the Wairarapa Belief Fund Committee the treasurer reported that appropriations had been made to the extent of £160, leaving a balance of £2144-. The report of the amounts paid by the Dunedin committee showed that to provide for the Dnnedin appropriations it would require £1009 Is Id in addition to the sums collected. The secretary was instructed to inform the Dunedin committee that if it would deal with as many cases as its funds would permit the Wellington committee would deal with any further cases submitted to it, so far as its funds enabled it to do so and circumstances justified. A letter was received from the hon. secretary of the Oamaru fund, stating that he had £139 available for distribution, and asking the Wellington committee to assist Oamaru with a contribution from the Wellington fund, or to accept the amount held by him and to allow the Oamaru beneficiaries a share out of the common Wellington fund. It was resolved to take over the Oamaru fund and to give immediate relief in the case of Mrs Cree, whose husband was drowned, making provision to give her and her child a sum of 10s per week for five years. A grant of 30s per week for five years was made to Mrs Howland (of Oamaru) and her family, and a sum of £29 was voted for the relief of Mrs Pratt (now in Melbourne), mother of a lamp-trimmer who was drowned.