DISTRESS COMMITTEE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2257, 17 September 1914, Page 6

DISTRESS COMMITTEE

A MAYORAL STATEMENT. Tho Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) is calling a meeting of the Distress and Unemployment Committee for' 3 p.m. tomorrow. On the subject of distress the Mayor stated yesterday that there had been applications for relief \ received, but none wero of an abnormal character, and so far no money had been paid out from the fund. Regarding unemployment, the City Council had already put on a number of men on different city works of a character calculated to absorb unskilled labour, and other works had been submitted to the Finance Committee of the council on Tuesday, and their prosecution would be recommended to the full council at this evening's meeting. •Once these were put in hand further relief would be given to the more urgent cases. , MAYOR'S WAR DISTRESS FUND. £ s. d. Amount previously acknow- • ledged 1777 8 0 Miramar Borough Employees (first instalment) 3 12 0 Joe Kwong Lee 2 2 '0 F. Dye Chum 2 -2 0 Sing On Kee ..... 2 2 0 Wong Too (Petone) •. 1 1 0 A. J. Hong 0 10 6 ' £1788 17 6 The Wellington Trades and Labour Council have resolve'd to donate onehalf tho net proceeds of the forthcoming Labour Day demonstration to the Maj-or's War Distress Fund. .. "THE DOMINION" LISTS. The following are the donations to The Dominion's War Fund lists to | date: — WAR FUND. ■ - £ s. d. Previously acknowledged ... 1,961 3 3 LOCAL RELIEF FUND. Contributions to the fund for the relief of local cases of, distress are: — £ a. d. Previously acknowledged ... 328 7 1 8 BELCIAN RELIEF FUND. Contributions to the fund for the relief of the Belgians in distress will Bubseijuently be forwarded to the authorities in Belgium for distribution. £ s. d. Previously acknowledged ... 607 0 4 A. S. Wilson 10 0 0 Proceeds from concert given by passengers 5.6. Manuka (Sept-ember. 14, 1914) 6 6 0 Mrs. Kebbfcll o 5 0 "E.T." 1...... 2 2 0 W. Withers 10 0 Total 631 13 4 - BLANKET FUND. Contributions to the Blanket Fund in aid of the distressed in England, France.' and Belgium, are: — £ s. d. Previously acknowledged ... 42 10 0 "E.T." ' 2 0 0' Mrs. Kebbell 2 0 0 "P. 0." .; 11 0 "S.J.R." 10 0 A. Yarrall ...: 1 0 0 Total 47 11 0