GREATEST WAR CHARITY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 178, 23 April 1919, Page 7

GREATEST WAR CHARITY

ÜBITISH NATIONAL RELIEF FUND. The aggregate receipts of the British National Pelief Fund up to September 30. 1818—according to the report of the Executive Cvnimittce issued recentlyamounted to ,£6,137,733. Of tjiis sum .£3,088,929 had been granted in naval and military relief and .£808.952 in civil relief. The income frpm funds, temporarily invested during the four years amounted to .£181.529. Among the grants made since August, 19K. were:— : £ Soldiers and Sailors' Families' Association 1,917,155 Local Committees 361,675 St. Dunstan's Hostel 1i6,000 Soldiers' and Sailors' Help Society 115,000 Koval Patriotic Fund'.... 110,031 Local Committees (civil distress) 620,197 Women's Employment 39,701 Relief of Professional Classes... 83,901 Belief of East Coast Towns 25,380 Sbimvrecked Mariners 15,000 •Mrants were made of .£25,000 to the Kiiijf's Fund for Disabled Officers and Men. J.-20.000 In Queen Jfary's Convalescent Hospital•■ for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers, mid .£2.3,000 to the Royal Victoria Patriotic School. ft is stated that Ihe East Coast towns generally enjoyed a more successful siynmer season last year tlian since the outbreak of w:ir, but the mnjqritv' of the lodnhighouse-keepers have incurred heavy debts during the past four years, and will probably etil) rspire assistance. Some people endure the tortures i f toothache rather than p to the Dentist. Time was when nno had good reasons lor this procrastination, but not now—if the Dentist is W. P. Sommerrville. .All his work is absolutely painless,, whether it bo fillings, extractions, or crowning. Moderate fees. Consult "The Careful Dentist, 1 ' Molesworth Street.—Advt.