BIG RELIEF PAYMENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 689, 14 June 1929, Page 10

BIG RELIEF PAYMENTS

HEAVY YEAR FOR WAR ASSOCIATION £121,000 CREDIT BALANCE

Valuable payments to ex-.„i d,ers needing relief and th! •?'' crease of applications owing to currmg war illnesses-these we~ described to members of ,iT Auckland Provincial Patriot,- * h ! War Relief Association, which vT.T* meeting afternoon he ' d its a "n“i I s hi r addl ! l s " Mr v ; Lamer, vice. 1 payments for the v, u to" reninaea that I LG v'!Tan .“mSESd**; figures! Y.f i® 81 !rar s I been made to’all ’the divisions’ of ‘IS | association. ine | . “ We ha ' e hud many more applj c ., lions in the past year.” Mr barn I said - conditions have made work particularly heavv. our “The spectre of unemployment has been with us and, it u continueare going to have heavy calls on „ funds. The disabled men are having Thfn,.,in a r on, I" uaem P l °>mT n r Ihe main rtason for the recurrin'claims for relief is that many arc feeling more acutely the effects 3 then* war service. 1 “Our B’ fund for local relief, which has done such valuable work in suddlv ing the dependents of returned Wn’ is unfortunately all but exhausted Thdecrease from last year on* \h amounts paid to permanently disabled men was expected as a good deal of the foundation work has been done f ur these soldiers.’* r Mr. Earner went on to say that the investments were sound. lie the members, who showed little chan~~ m their personnel after nearlv 15 year for their interest in the work. Receipts from the outset until th«» end of March were £OIO.OOO, and £ 455.000 had been disbursed. LARGE DISBURSEMENTS The year opened with a credit balance of £ 133.072 Is 4d, interest on investments reaching £7,883 Is 3d. and donations received were £293 7s fcd For assistance to unemployed tho National War Funds Council gave £SOO. Disbursements on all account* were £20,349 3s sd, the principal -.terns being:—Auckland Claims Board £8.349; 13 provincial branches, £744* Permanently Disabled Soldiers* Board £1.864; Local Relief “B” Fund' £5,656; and Veterans’ Home, £SB6. The balance in hand is £121,699 6s 10d, of which amount £120,731 10s 1d is at the credit of “A” fund and £967 16s 9d in “B*’ fund. In “A** fund, the Claims Board dealt, with 6.55 S application? in the year, excluding the applications considered bj the branches. “Adverse economic conditions have made the work difficult,*’ the report said. “Many men are suffering from recurring war disability. Some applications were from men who had not applied previously. Their claims wero investigated carefully. The “B” fund established for relief in Auckland City has experience! heavy claims. The arrangements with the City Council and the Onehunga Borough Council to provide work for men nominated by the association has continued. Grants were made to the Returned Soldiers’ Club and the Mayoress’s War Memorial Library Committee. The balance of the fund haa decreased.

INTEREST RECEIVED In the report to the executive before the annual meeting, the total funds at November 30 were given as £121.551 7s 6d. Since then £3,114 Is 30d has been received for interest on investments, £4.392 3s 5d from refunds from Southern patriotic societies, and £lO 16s Ed from donations, making a total of £129,068 9s sd. Expenditure since November 30 amounted to £9,001 16s 9d. leaving a balance on hand at the end of May of £120.066 12s Sd. It was reported to the executive that assistance costing £3.525 0s lid had been granted since last meeting by the Claims Board to 1,082 applicants. Applications declined or referred to Southern patriotic societies numbered 520, the total number of requests for assistance being 1,602. In accordance with the decision of the executive at its last meeting, no applications were received from fit returned soldiers. “The board is continuing its policy of assisting soldiers who are not receiving a war pension.” said the report. Six of 10 applications for assistance wore granted by the Permanently Disabled Soldiers’ Board. Since the board’s inception, 536 men have been voted assistance amounting to £107,973 14s 6d. The Veterans’ Home Coin: itoe reported that there were 25 veterans at the home. Major Wallingford had replayed Major Nutsford as superintendent. The deficit in the working account was £228 7s Sd for the year. There were 16 inmates at the tuberculosis shelters and 18 at the Evelyn Firth Home.