WAR RELIEF.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17123, 26 October 1917, Page 2

WAR RELIEF.

... WELLINGTON, October 25

.The Advisory Board of the Patriotic War Relief Societies' Federation met to-day. The Minister of Defence wrote to the effect that it was proposed to increase widowed mothers 3 allowances to 10s 6d and raise the limit of income to 10s. '■

Some time ago the Advisory Board wrote- the Minister of Defence urging that the Financial Assistance Board be empowered to assist sailors and their dependents in the same way as soldiers and their dependents were now being helped. The Minister replied that the matter was f>till before the Cabinet.

The Board considered the Minister's reply to its suggestions in reference to settling returned soldiers on the land was most satisfactory.

Correspondence read showed that th» Government was giving every consideration to the question of the technical training of returned soldiers. The Board considered the replies of Ministers to its representations on the subject were satisfactory. ' A letter, believed to fee from a member of the "Rifle Brigade, was rear* urging that funds be given to supplement army rations so'as to give greater variety. The Board resolved, to nslc the societies to send ,£?SO now and £250 in six months' time to meet casee of the kind referred to by the writer. Tiie meeting passed a motion congratulating the Government upon the amended scale of separation allowances, and ■expressing the. opiuion that the scale is as Mberal as the circumstances of the Dominion ' will permit.