HOROWHENUA COUNTY PATRIOTIC FUND.

Otaki Mail, 6 April 1923, Page 2

HOROWHENUA COUNTY PATRIOTIC FUND.

a * * MEETING ol EXECUTIVE. A moiling ji Hit- executive u | t,|n > 1 leiowliemiu County I’uuintic As.vj I- - iunou \vu; held at the ollice oi ihi ■-ecreiaiy, .Mr F. F. U'alkiey. on Weil j nc.-.la y. Thom cveie pi'c-sent .Mr j n v '• e.old.'tniUi, eluiuiiian, Mrs | . | I/lII'OII and .Ml | I'Ju.-n-i . I.eliei - o. iipoJogy lor oi'j;jl.i|e ale-eiu.e wort j leeched Horn Messrs. it. Andrew atui jC. S Iveed weii. • lue >eeret;iiy repo tied inning r, I_ ' l ived -iiiee lust mci-ting iiuetesi and :l j•i ill i£j;i i in tin- eases ui several fed aids made i>> the Ahsucinte.ii. in e '--aid to interest mi jouns to sol e dieis n,j< was "o.’ihiij.' in very ~a.trIfieioriiy. jeayments being made in (iraetically every case. '■ Advices were received Hum tin Auckland, Wellington and Hawke - a Hay War HeJiei .Societies, re unde e serving cases who might apply to the A~-oe)ation lor relief, u 'n ttppliea(ii.ui was received iron; L . die wile oi a soldier, now deceased. who enlisted irom this district, she I hud married again, and having been , deserted by her husband, who is also a returned -oidiei. and being in pool circumstances, applied for assistance. Jt was d-'eided to aicede to tiie re- ' 'ptest. provided Uie society lor the 1 southern district irom which the hu.— aaiid enlisted also assists. 'Phe secre- . taiy was fui'her duected lo advance , uji to id towards lent. L An application wa> rec ived from .1 . returned soldier now in hospital tor . as-istan- e towards the purchase of a sewing- machine to augment tinlajiidy iiicome. Tin,- was deferred to ’ enable unjuiries to be made. An application lor a loan of i-Vj so hUf furniture was granted on »h« usual terms. file Fublie 1 rustee acknowledged 1 eeeipt. o; ill sc gran! to the widow of a returned soidier. A letter was received from the wife ol a returned soidier now in .hospital, acknowledging receipt ol assistance. The f’lib . TmsteC rn . that the re-invesm.cm tl'ni - had been completed. I he secretary reported the sale oi the st-ciioji in .Salisbury Street, pre—: • *' * the McDonald Estate, the price being £6O. An account of ii m was pa-sed I j for payment. At the conclusion of the meeting the j ■ itainnan, commenting on the -atis- 1 1 ui:tory manner in which interest on loans was being paid, said that r his I was particularly gratifying to see, ‘ especially considering the times. 1 fiver £6O had been r- tslverj in inter- i kit since last meeting, and n was! very enccnroqir.g to the Society to know that : assistant was rearing, fruit, and enahiing deserving men to get the stars, in life which was their, due. The next meeting of the Society wWJ be held in May. date'not yet decided on