A note of warning was sounded at a 'meeting of -the Dominion executive of it-he New Zealand branch of the British Red Gross Society and Order of St.. John with regard to the funds available for relief of ox-servicemen. Money, ’it was suggested, had been squandered in the past on providing luxuries. These luxuries should now be cut out and tho funds conserved. “We shall have the disabled men with us until they die,” remarked one delegate. “Ourfunds are being rapidly depleted, 'and must be conserved for tho really 'necessitous cases, -Chocolates and calces are all very nice, but they are not necessities.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17946, 25 November 1932, Page 9
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