PATRIOTIC ADVISORY BOARD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14437, 25 October 1917, Page 4

PATRIOTIC ADVISORY BOARD.

[ CPer Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Advisory Board of the Patriotic War R-eJief Societies' Federation met to-day. "The Minister of Defence wrote that it was proposed to increase the widowrod mothers' allowance to 10s 6d and raise the limit of income, to 10s. Some time ago . the Advftsoiy Board wrote, to the Minister of ' Defence, urging that the Financial Assistance Board be empowered to assist sailors and their dependents m the same way as soldiers and tneir. dependents were now being helped. The Minister replied' that the matter was still before the Cabinet.

The Board considered the Minister of I*ands* reply to its suggestion m reference to settling returned • soldiers on land was most satisfactory. Correspondence read showed that the Government was giving every consideration to tho question of technical training 1 of returned soldiers. The Board considered the replies of Ministers to itß representations on tho subject were satisfactory.

A letter, believed to be from a. member of the Rifle Brigade, was read, urging that funds bo given to supplement army rations, so as to give • greater variety. The. Board resolved to ask tho societies to send £250 now and £250 m six months' time to meet cases of tho kind referred to by the writer. The meeting, passed a motion of congratulation upon the amended scale of separation allowances, and expressing the opinion that the scale is as liberal as tWe circumstances of the Dominion will permit. ■