For Wounded Saldiers

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 October 1916, Page 3

For Wounded Saldiers

THE COUNTY FUND. Messrs Charles Hlenkhorn, B. R. Gardener and C. S. Keedwell visited Shannon last night (Thursday), and addressed representatives of the Shannon Patriotic Society, in support of the proposal to develop a County Patriotic Fund for relief of soldiers and their dependents who may be in need after the war.

The delegates from Levin explained once more that the fund was to be for relief of cases throughout tlio count,v, 'and to be controlled by representatives from the cenres of population within the county; also that th : e 6chome would provide relief for

soldiers hailing flrom sparsely-popu-lated districts in which there were no local fundis available. Such soldiers had' every bit as much moral right to relief as any soldrier from Levin, Shannon, or Otaki; yet at present they had no society to look to- with surety of favourable reply.

Messrs Stephenson and Law explain, ed on behalf of Shannon, that there had been misconceptions as to the scope and provisions of the scheme; an idea had prevailed that the scheme wns not to be general to the county. On tho motion of Mr Law*, it was unanimously resolved that iShannon Patriotic .Society support the scheme for the formation of a county fund. will be made very shortly to advance the scheme to a wider, more comprehensive area of endeavour than the* organizing work has been covering hereto.