MILITARY TENTS AND BLANKETS
APPEAL FOli THE HOMELESS. . Speaking in the federal Senate on June !>7 on the scarcity of housing accommodation. Senator Grant asked whether l.'ie 'Defence authorities would make available tome of the military tents for people v. ho could not get houses. ''Senator .Rinsell " said Senator Grant yesterday, "replied that 5000 blankets and fiMO yards of flannel had already been made available. This was in Melbourne, of course. On July 3 I asked him whether. in view of this statement, ho was prepared to trea 1 the other capital cities of ilu' Commonwealth in the name way. He replied Unit he would deal with reonests sympathetically. "I have not. the least doubt that, there are many organisations which could make a most satisfactory use ol' these things, and I would suuue.it that such organisations communicate with Senator Russell at, once. It would lie far better to make us-.* of the blankets in this way at once, since we arc not likely to have another .war for many years. than to have them stored away and eaten up by moths."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 268, 8 August 1919, Page 8
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182MILITARY TENTS AND BLANKETS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 268, 8 August 1919, Page 8
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