WHY NOT EARTHQUAKE FUND FOR POVERTY BAY DAMAGE?
AUCKLAND, June 4. It will come as a considerable surprise to manv people especially those in the fiooded areas of the East Coast, lo find that the Minister of Finance has so flatlv refused to entertain any proposals for the use of the Earthquake and War Damage Fund which lias reached a ,total of more thau £5,300,000," saicl the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. S. G. Holland) today. "I feel confulent in saring that when t.he old War Damage Iiisurance Fund was converted into the Earth quake and War Damage Fund members of Parliament of that day fell that occurrances such as -the distastrous. Gisborne floods would legitifilateh. come within its scope for relief. '■ 1 1 the very heavy losses occasioned by the recent flOods do not come within the categorv of a national disaster then it would be diffieiilt to envisage a set ol: cireumstanees that would.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 June 1948, Page 3
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