£9OO IN RELIEF
FLOOD SUFFERERS RAILWAY CAMP CLAIMS TWO CASES FROM TOLAGA “DIGGER” FARMERS’ LIST Payments made from the district flood relief fund to date in respect of losses suffered in the February floods, have absorbed over £9OO. Outstanding claims from the camp communities on the railway route between Muriwai and Waikokopu represent an aggregate substantially in excess of the balance of funds in the hands of the committee.
Information to this effect was obtained to-day from the secretary of he Flood Relief Committee, Mr. R. P. Baigent, who intimated that payments to married men in the camps had absorbed £455, while those made to single men, on a lower scale, had totalled about £450.
The committee had' still -to’ deal with a large number of claims for assistance, forwarded from the railway camps, and would have no surplus for relief purposes in the' Tolaga Bay area if these claims were paid. Two Tolaga Bay cases in connection with which special claims were made to the committee at \ its last meeting were granted £25 each, this money being handed to the Tolaga Bay committee for administration. The £SO represented by these grants is the total of payments from the main fund on behalf of Uawa County sufferers. The inquiries made to-day were prompted by statements at yesterday’s meeting of the Cook County Council, which suggested that a proportion of the main funds would be available for aiding the distressed cases in the Tolaga Bay area. This suggestion was contrary to the information on which the Gisborne Returned Soldiers’ Association’s executive acted, in initiating the “Digger” settlers’ relief fund. The statement of the floodrelief committee’s secretary confirms the information on which the association acted. Donations to the “Digger” settlers’ flood relief fund through the Herald list are acknowledged as under: —
£ s d P.B. Herald Co., Ltd. .. 5 0 0 Times' Publishing Co., Ltd. 5 0 0 Stoneham and Co., Ltd. .. 1 1 0 Total to date £11 1 0
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19585, 17 March 1938, Page 4
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328£900 IN RELIEF Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19585, 17 March 1938, Page 4
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