BLIND SOLDIERS
MONEY AVAILABLE ASSISTANCE ARRANGED The National War Funds Council has a sum of £11,630 available for assistance to blind returned soldiers and their dependants, according to Mr H. Holland, a member of the council, who made a report to the meeting of the Canterbury Patriotic Fund recently. Mr Holland said he would be glad if those who knew of blinded sol-
diers or their dependants would communicate with him. He said that when a blinded returned soldier died his widow's pension was not made up to nearly the amount received when he was alive. The money was lying idle in Wellington, and it could be devoted to the needs of all blinded returned soldiers from the last war, even if their blindness had occurred since their return from' the war. The sum mentioned included that raised by the New Zealand Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association.
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Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3762, 25 September 1940, Page 7
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