OTAGO PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION

Otago Witness, Issue 3566, 18 July 1922, Page 47

OTAGO PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION

ASSISTANCE ADMINISTERED. Five meetings of the Claims Committee of the Otago Soldiers and Dependents’ Welfare Committee were held during June. Eighty-eight applications were received from returned soldiers, and were dealt with as follows:—Twenty-eight grants were made totalling £134 3s Bd, and 27 allowances aggregating at the weekly rate of £SB 0s 2d were authorised. Two loans totalling £250 were granted, adequate security being taken in each case; in two cases rearrangements were made regarding loans already granted; two mortgages were discharged; 15 applications were declined; consideration of nine was deferred pending fuller information, and one application was considered and referred to another society with a recommendation. Applications were considered where the disabilities were not certified to as being due to the soldier’s war service, and assistance was granted where the circumstances were such as warranted this action being taken. Applications from men, the responsibility of other associations and ivt National Bar Funds Council and i\ew Zealand Sheepowners’ Acknowledgment -of Debt to British Seamen Fund were taken in the office in the usual wav and forwarded to the responsible body to be dealt with. Cigarettes, tobacco, and marches were issued during the month to the Dunechn Public Hospital, Seacliff Mena Hospital, and B atari Sanatorium, the following being a statement of the quantities issued: 500 packets of cigarettes Vo of pipe tobacco, 6flb of cigarette toirZcXi. • nd <,r °