NEW ARRANGEMENT

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 235, 1 July 1944, Page 6

NEW ARRANGEMENT

Relief For Servicemen Explaining a new arrangement to assist in providing relief for servicemen of this war. the secretary of the Wellington Patriotic Council, Mr. V. Ward, said yesterday that welfare committees were being established by ail provincial councils throughout the Dominion. “In this province committees have been set up in each zone and the War Relief Association of Wellington is acting as bur welfare committee,” he said. “It. has on it representatives of the War Relief Association ' (still administering relief for the last war), the Metropolitan Patriotic Committee, and the R.S.A. Mi-. L. O. 11. Tripp is chairman; Messrs. W. 11. Price and A. Urquhart represent the Wellington Metropolitan Patriotic Committee; and Mr. E. C. Hale, of the R.S.A., represents the Wellington Provincial Patriotic Council.

“In order that all the welfare committees in the provinces shall work on similar lines and may have all the information necessary, it has now been agreed by the Provincial Patriotic Council that: the Wellington War Relief Association shall be Hie co-ordinating body for the whole province. It will render monthly statements to the Patrtiotic Council,” said Mr. Ward. “The funds required for this purpose are held by the Provincial Patriotic Council and amounted, on June 23, to £121,781. Tills is being drawn on all the time, and the demands will considerably increase as members of the services return in larger numbers, because, with the best intentions in Hie world. the State can no more today, than during and after the last war, carry out ils tremendous rehabilitation work without eases of hardship arising, without, unforeseen and unavoidable delays occurring, and without mooting difficulties causing unusual individual cases of distress. The records show many such cases which cannot be mot in time by State rehabilitation schemes. Patriotic funds are not: being used in this welfare work to relieve the Suite of its responsibilities. but ■welfare' does meet the position where the unexpected crops up and has t<> be coped with to safeguard members of the services and their dependants.”