THE BRUNNER DISASTER FUND.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12796, 30 September 1905, Page 3

THE BRUNNER DISASTER FUND.

explanation. ' - '. - \ . ,Per Sres3 " Association. '. :WELLIXGTON, September-29. I referencevto'ithe -telegram regarding teh BrunneJ- Disaster. Fund .-the Public Trustees states that under the trust the trustee was to consult the Advisory Bojird, a; \Vest Coast-. locH committee, belore making alterations and had power to veto the recommendations of the Board. Parents had assured position on the funds like widows - antt/t'hildren. Their allowances had" to be rendered year by. year by ' the trustee! Tl!ere ! was, never any certainty of repewal' of their allowances, "and Mrs Parsons and : each' of the other parents had in 1896 -accepted lump sums in satisfaction of thejr.iclaims 4»pAn tile fund. Since then, seeing that allowances had been continued from year to year to others who had noo taken Sqnt-in "substitution, Mrs Parsons wanted to be back on the funds. - To reinstate Tier would mean the reinstatenjent. of otlier persons similarly placed, and ih "all'tases persons would have to be paid up. The.fund must in the-first place be conserved for widows. He calculated that the fund would be* exhausted by 1915,. yeqjcsjr longer than' the period originally .-actiwriajly calculated, which reisulf was being "obtained by; careful management.. Tl)e Contingency ; Fund was not for the- purpose contended by. the Board. -.