£2000 WANTED
FOll UPPER HUTT DISASTER FUND. A meeting of tlio Upper Butt Disaster Committee.was held yesterday evening under tho presidency of His Worship tho Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke). There were, present: Messrs. T. M. Wilford, M.P., D. M'Laron, P. J, O'B-egan, and J. J. M'Grath. Apologies for absence were received from Jlessrs. R. H. Webb ami A. M. Samuel. In the tertas of a resolution of a- previous meeting n. committee had been instructed to inquire info and report as to the amount aotvtalh' needed by the. dependents of tlw.se killed or injured at tho fire, in order that the publie should bo advised of tho same) which work had been done. As some of the. sufferers were officers in the Public Service the committee had waited upon Cabinet Ministers to as* certain what tho Government proposed to do, and as the result of that action the following• resolution was passed:-— "That,_ in eonseqiiejicu of the fact that tho Ministers had agreed to submit to Cabinet a scheme that would provide assistance to the dependents of those in .the service of the Government who suffered in the Upper Hutt disaster, tho amount renuired to be solicited from the public bo £2000."
It. was further received: "That tho committee decides that tho whole of the contributions received toward the fund, from whatever sources, arc to he devoted solely to tho assistance of dependents and sufferers by the disaster, and for no other purpose whatever." The Mavor explained that the reason of the latter restriction was that the public might have received the impression that the whole of the £5000 originally mentioned as the sum likely to ho needed might not be required for tho actual relief of sufferers' and dependents, and they, wished to make it clear that tho money subscribed would be devoted to the one. purpose cmlv. ■ ■ The- amount already subscribed'from all sources is'£s96.
THE DOMINION LIST. £ s. d. Already acknowledged jj HalcoDjbe ...., 10 0 J..G, Wilson, Balls 5 0 0 ■ ■ __ ' - £97 1 0
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2125, 17 April 1914, Page 8
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337£2000 WANTED Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2125, 17 April 1914, Page 8
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