PUKEKOHE DISTRICT PATRIOTIC COMMITTEE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 65, 4 August 1915, Page 2

PUKEKOHE DISTRICT PATRIOTIC COMMITTEE.

Disbursement of Funds. A meeting of the Pukekohe Patriotic District Committee, was held io the Borough Couucil Chambers on Monday last, the Mayor, Mr H. U. R. Mason, presiding.

It was decided that the He v. J. I Calder'R olfer to give a lecture in Pukekoho on the war be accepted, and that the same be given in the Premier Hall on Monday, the 16th inst., admisiioa to be free, and a collection ti be taken up in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. Advice was received frcm the Mayor of Auckland that money collected in the Province for the Hospital Ship and Wounded Scldiers Fund would ba uari out frcm Auckland u'less it was finally decided to merge game into a Dominion Fund. A conference with this object in view was now being held in Wellington.—lc was decided, on the motion of the chairman, seconded by Mr Barter, that the Mayor of Auckland be informed that tha committee was of the opioion that all funds collected fur the rJief cf the wounded soldiers should be con solidated in order that every Eoldier throughout the Daminion might receive similar treatment, ana that separate Provincial Executives be formed to make necessary diibursem silts in accordance with rules drawn up by the central authority, without tli2 necessity of referring each particular case to the central authority.

It was also decided that the Committer ehoJd rttain any money now in hand, or which might subsequently be paid in, until tuch time as a decision wjg nrrived at upon the method of administration of the fund. The question of calling « public meeting to aek the public for further contribution;) to the fund was also held over for the Bame time.

The Mayor ot Auckland advised that the Mayor of i'ukektlie had heen appoiDttd a member of the Auckland Provincial Relief Association.