WAR RELIEF

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 1, 26 September 1918, Page 8

WAR RELIEF

MEETING OF LOCAL ASSOCIATION. The executive committee of the Wellington War Belief Association met yesterday. Mr. L. 0. H. Tripp was in the chair, and Messrs. J. Lewis, C. M. Luke, G, Slurtcliffe, A. M'lntosh, A. K. Atkinson, J. Hutcheson,' E. J. Colloy, C. A. Swan, and S, Kirkcaldie were also presnpt. The Applications Committee reported that, it was receiving a large number' of applications 'from soldiers who had married overseas, and who asked now io be provided with furniture. It was utterly impossible to grant all such requests, and the. committee had decided, therefore, that unless exceptional circumstances could be proved, claims from men who had married overseas must he declined in favour of applications from soldiers desirous of re-establishing a domestic position broken up when enlistment occurred. "It has been so frequently etated in the local r<ewspapers,"_ added the committee, "that 'tree medical treatment is extended by the Wellington Publio Hospital to the dependants of soldiers on activo service that tlw fact must be generally known; yet the number of claims for payment of private practitioners' accounts increases month by mouth. The committee has therefore decided that, ns, a general rule, such applications shall-be declined, particularly so when the association has not been consulted prior to the liability having been incurred." Tlip Finance Committee reported that the funds in hand at the end of August amounted to £73,567 18s. 7d. The expenditure for August amounted to £1140 17s. 5d., and the income to £422 7s. Bd. The reports were adopted.