WAR RELIEF ASSOCIATION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 132, 21 February 1918, Page 6

WAR RELIEF ASSOCIATION

YESTERDAY'S MEETING. The Executive Committee of the Wellington War Relief A ssociation met yesterday, Mr. L. 0. H. Tripp presiding. The Finance Committea reported that the expenditure for tlje month of January had been £693 17s. 10d. and the income £492 7b. Id., leaving a

balance of £201 10s. 9d. to be paid out of capital. The funds in hand at the end of the month amounted to £75,218 lls. 9d. The Relief Committee reported that in November, 1917, it had asked the Minister of Defence to make tip the difference between Imperial pay and allowances and New Zealand pay and allowances in respect to the dependants domiciled in New Zealand of reservists serving with the Imperial Forces. ' The Minister had agreed, in part, to the request, and instructions had been conveyed to the Treasury and to war expenses branch to make up the difference between Imperial and New Zealand pay. The committee had dealt with 201 cases since the last meeting of the executive. The report was adopted. Consideration of a draft scale of supplementary allowances to wives and children of soldiers was held over. LETTERS OF THANKS. All men are not ungrateful, nor are all women. A good many letters of thanks for help given reach the War Relief Association weekly. _ Tho following are examples received this week, one from the stormy North Sea, "in the midst of alarms"; the other from our own peaceful city:— "Grand Fleet," December 23, 1917. The Secretary, War Relief Association, Wellington. Dear Sir,—l am writing a few lines for your kindness and the assistance you have given to my wife. I cannot :nake out why the marriage allowance lias been stopped. I have been to the paymaster on the ship, and he knows nothing about it. He said it might bo the changing to the Imperial Government. Do you think they Know anything at the Treasury Office in Wellington? The people of my late ship aro still waiting for their money to be paid over to them. Well, this is all from, Leading Stoker , North. Sea "Grand Fleet."

Wellington. To the Secretary, "War.Relief Association, Wellington. Dear Sir,—ln reply to your j letter, which I received to-day, I must thank you aiid the committee for' getting through for me tliis extra Government allowance, which means a great deal in every way. In conclusion. I would just like to. say that I could not, help noticing how kind-mannered all the staff have always been, the young ladies, and also the interviewers — Sincerely yours, Mrs. ( .