TO RELIEVE DISTRESS
A meeting of the City Cotracil and I Tramways staffs was held in the Town Hall last evening to consider what thev should do financially in connection with the crisis which has arisen.- Th© first proposal put forth was that a fund should be established to relievo any distress that might arise as the result oi the war; but an amendment was carried that the fund be applied to such cases as were direciiy concerned with thoso serving in vho expeditionary force sent from New Zealajid, It was 'decided that to initiate the fund a levy bo made on salaries of at least 2\ per cent, for the next three months, when the position would be reviewed. • This does not mean that_ only 21- per cent will bo forthcoming in every oase. That is tlio minimum. Some of the higher paid officials, it is understood, will pay into the fund as much, as 5 per cent, of their salaries for the ensuing three months.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2225, 11 August 1914, Page 7
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167TO RELIEVE DISTRESS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2225, 11 August 1914, Page 7
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