WAR RELIEF FUNDS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11698, 19 October 1916, Page 8

WAR RELIEF FUNDS.

WARNING FROM SECRETARY FOR COLONIES.

Per Press Association

Wellington, Oct. 18,

The Governor has received the following telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies; —■ “It is desirable that it should be laid down that general subscriptions, collections, or remittances for relief societies operating in enemy occupied territory should not be encouraged. This does not apply to the National Committee for the Relief of Belgium, which stands on a speeia Ifooting, but does apply to Polish relief, ami therefore excludes every subscription made with a view to Polish relief. The funds should be used only for the relief of Poles in Russia and shou<d be sent through His Majesty’s Ambassador at Petrograd, or if preferred through the Polish /War Victims Relief Committee in London; Remittances to individuals in enemy-occupied territory, not being of enemy nationality, may be made provided certain conditions laid down are fulfilled, which are briefly as follows:—Firstly, the same individual is not to receive from ail sources more than £25 per month; secondly, all remittances are to be made through a bank in the United Kingdom which ■can be supervisee by His Majesty’s Government. ”