SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS' FUND.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14859, 5 September 1918, Page 6

SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS' FUND.

A meeting; of the Advisory Board of the Nelson Sick and Wounded Soldiers' Fund Society was held in the Mayor's room at the" City Council Offices last evening-. Present: Mr W. W. Snod.grass .(president), Dr. Bett, Messrs J. H. .Gock, James Hunt, W. C. Harley, 'H. Everett, .E.: S.. Htmlt. E. J. Allen, and thY secretary • (Mr 3H.. Saunders, jun.), -. . '"^ r, ■ :.. • ■■•■ -~.'-■ J•';.;:;■----'Apologies for : sibsence were - received from Mey,*Fs ;J.-P. .Hayes, J. A. Wallace^ C.J.'Harley,'aiid'Mrs Crawford. An unusually largo.number of applications for assistance, sent in by returned men, were considered, and in most 'cases the applicants were granted relief.

Accounts amounting to £S 18s 6d were passed for payment. In a large number of cases doalt with by the executive between the meetings the executive's action was endorsed.

A statement of tho fund's financial position was placed on the table.

The secretary of the Nelson Returned Soldiers' Association asked that a denu-

tation bo .permitted to wait on the Advisory Board at some suitable time and place", with a view to urging the subsiuismy of Mr J. H. Cock's generous gii't of £2000 for the erection of a returned soldiers' club in Nelson. It was resolved that the Returned Soldiers' Associatio:: iy> advised that the Advisory Board would be pleased to meet the deputation on n euuesciay, October 2nd_, at 7 p.m.