’QUAKE FUND
A BALANCE SHEET WANTED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) NAPIER, March 9At a meeting of the Hawke’s Bay County Council, the chairman said that exaggerated reports reached Napier as to the spending of the relief fund in Wellington. He thought the Public Trustee should show how the relief was being expended. Some had remained like heroes, while others had left. It was necessary to evacuate the women and children from Napier, hut not so at Hastings. He thought they should now return and lend a hand. The balance of the fund, after feeding the- necessitous at. the bases, should be divided over the afflicted area . A motion was carried that a balance sheet be produced. A country representative said the time had arrived for the people to return rather than live in other parts. A well known business man asserted to-dav that Wellington so far give daily n cash donation to a hied bodied men. whilst most of those who remained, worked for nothing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1931, Page 5
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165’QUAKE FUND Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1931, Page 5
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