WAR RELIEF ASSOCIATION
This week's meeting of the Belief Committee occupied a sitting of three hours and seventy-five Applications were dealt with.
-Mr. T. Hope-Gibbons, chairman of the Wanganui Patriotic Society, and a Wellington district .representative to the Advisory Board of the New Zealand War Belief Societies, attended b,\ special invitation, and discussed various matters with the committee.
' -The lion, lady visitor, Mrs. S. B. MacEwan, reported that she had received several exceedingly useful and splendidly worke'd articles of clothing from the childrpn.. of Miss Lnurenson's class 'at the Technical School. The children were congratulated on their excellent work, and a hearty-vote of thanks was accorded them for (heir generous efforts 011 behalf of the many deserving apDlicants at present being assisted by the association.
The Royal Now Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children continue to supply clothing, and nearly 200 garments'have beon handed over by the society to Mrs, MacEwan for distribution. .
It. was'decided also to heartily thank Miss Bnrnctt, who renders excellent assistance to Mrs. MacEwan in numerous directions.
Unfortunately it has been found necessary to inform the police of certain undesirable cases of applicants attempting to obtain money from the association under false pretcrfces.'Misstatements ;irrrepeatedly made to the association's interviewers, and it is hoped to stop such undesirable practices by making an example of one or two cases. In one case in particular a man described various wounds he had received, and he stated that his pension was inadequate to enable him to maintain his wife and family. On inquiries being made with the hope of alleviating the man's suffering it was ascertained that the signed statements were absolutely false, that the 'man had not applied to tho Pensions Department.; in fact, he had not. been to the war at all, and no trace could be found of j his wife and children. This matter is now in Hie hands of the police. In another instance a woman informed an interviewer that she was paying a rent nf .£] a week, but it was subsequently ascertained that she lQt one room at 9s. a week, and another at ~>s. a week, reducing her rent to Os. This information was supplied by one of the tenants whose wife implied for assistance 011 the ground that she thought the other woman' was receiving lielp from the association.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2799, 17 June 1916, Page 7
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390WAR RELIEF ASSOCIATION Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2799, 17 June 1916, Page 7
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