WAR RELIEF

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 156, 27 March 1919, Page 3

WAR RELIEF

MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

A BUSY MONTH

Tho Executive Committee of the AViir Belief Association met; yesterday, Mr. L--0. H. Trip)) presiding, lhose alsoi piesent were:-Messrs. C. A. Ewen, J. MlnV^ k SbyM,A.BAtki,,on nnd carried :-"That as the rights ot tho soldiers' wives and children aioi ecuiiised when a nension is made peini.mas it fe imposible for any man who has a wife and hie on 30s. a week, the Government bo iigui urged that where a provisional pension certificate is issued to a married «jld m a similar provisional ecrtiheate should bo made for his wife n 1 " 1 .. 01 ", 1 .' 1 ™"-,, Tho report of the Appheat on. Committee, whicii was adopted, f ate(l J! oißlit meetings had been held, and a total of 263 applications were dealt nun. There were thirty-one, addition apphentiens under consideration, and the ««t----lv nvenwe was seventy-five. 'I he *orfc Ot the Repatriation Department had not at fected the energies of the associat on to any appreciable extent, for the reason that the main subdivision of its wmk loons to men desiring to. enter business for the purchase of tools of trade, and tho supply of furniture-represented less than 3 U cent, of the total claim*, sb mitted to the committee last year, w mist Sous to that period the Discharged Soldiers' Information Department had found employment for discharge.l sol-diM-s There were, however, lnimßei ?<£ directions in which the men and their dependants, particulni -to w the nefi with bv reason of changing and uiitore see. circumstances. This was exenph•ed bv-lhe committse's experience duiing the past fifteen months, for since mIqnalled by the heavy increase, ni Ui« landers and their dopendants but b ex-Imperial soldiers nnd sa lois, inm who served with the, Canadian loi c*. tho Australian Imperial lorce, and [ Australian Tropical Vom, as well a the Bont to the awoeiahon'e honorary »liu tors for prelimini.ry advice. Several m n requiring surgical operat..ons or medical treatment were first dealt flili by the committee, referred to the «cdicul eervice branch, and sent b> it to Uotorua for final treatment. In other camTepresentations have been .made to the Bpar'd of Pensions Commissioners, CimaX to the -Imperial Tensions Board, London; and to the Australian authoi - tics Summing up tho months woik, it can be regarded ns the most strenuous tho committee has yet experienced. The financial statement showed ■ I tho income for the montii oi I'ebnaij a" I'M 17s. 7d, and the expend, nre W li«™7d.; the excess of expenditure beiim VC2OB iis. The statement, of total fi nb as at February 28 showed invest£M 13s. Id., petty cash, X2O; total, 7s. fal. ■