DISABLED SOLDIERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1920, Page 8

DISABLED SOLDIERS.

THE NATIONAL SCHEME. At a meeting of the committee appointed by the Advisory Board of War Relief. Societies to draft a scheme for the.administration of the funds for disabled soldiers on a national basis, it was pointed out that it would facilitate the drafting and carrying out of any scheme if, as a first step, the different provinces provincialised their funds. Some of the provinces are already well organised in this direction and have provincial fchemes. All the moneys are pooled in those provinces. They have a central committee, with local committees in the larger towns in the different districts. This method is reported to be working satisfactorily and efficiently in the Auckland and Taranaki provinces and elsewhere.

It was pointed out that the Wellington provincial district has no such organisation, but there are many societies ♦-soma large, some small—administering war relief and patriotic fluids. It ivas represented to the committee that if the societies operating in the Wellington province can agree to provincialise their funds, so as to have one society, such as the Auckland society, or if this suggestion cannot be carried out, if the number of the societies in the Wellington province can be materially reduced, then there will be less difficulty in drafting a scheme, national in its character, for the disabled soldiers.

This view lias been represented to the chairman of the Advisory Board, and ivith the object of explaining the position of the diil'erent societies operating in the Wellington provincial district, he is calling a meeting of these societies at an early date, the meeting to be held at Palmerston North.