A SET-BACK.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 10

A SET-BACK.

Cottage Homes Scheme at Sandilands. GRANTS HELD UP. The cottage homes settlement scheme at Sandilands, which has been sponsored by the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association, received a set-1 back yesterday when the National War Funds Council deferred an application for a grant cf £SOOO towards the cost of the scheme. Financial assistance from the National War Funds Council is vital to the success v of the scheme, as two other grants are contingent? upon money being obtained from £his source. Some time ago the Canteen Funds Board made a grant of £ISOO, subject to the condition that a similar amount was granted by the War Funds Council. That grant is now held up pending a final decision by the War Funds Council. An allocation of £2500 from an art union is similiarly held up. The allocation was made on the condition that the amount was subsidised £ for £ by the committee. The committee had intended to apply the grant from the Canteen Funds Board, together with any money it received from the War Funds Council, as the subsidy on the allocation from the art union, but it is still in the position of not being able to obtain either the Canteen Funds •grant or the art union money. Deputation to Council. A deputation from the Cottage Homes Committee, consisting of the Rev F. T. Read, president of the R.S.A., Mr A. C. Bretherton, chairman of the Finance Committee, and Mr E. F Willcox. secretary of the association, waited on the annual meeting of the War Funds Council in Wellington yesterday, and made application for a grant of £SOOO, with an immediate payment of £ISOO.

The meeting referred the application to the executive of the council for further consideration and to report back to the next meeting of the council. As a result of this decision, the question will not be brought before the council again for some time, and it is considered ■'that the prospects of obtaining the full amount applied for are not particularly good. The meeting allocated the sum of £15,000 for the relief of unemployment throughout the Dominion, this amount being the .same as was voted last year.