PATRIOTIC MATTERS.

Shannon News, 24 June 1921, Page 4

PATRIOTIC MATTERS.

MEETING OF LOCAL ASSOCIATION

The monthly meeting of the Executive Committee of the Horo whenua Patriotic Association was attended by Messrs. P. W. Goldsmith (chairman), G. Catley, C. S. Keedwell, F. Plaster and Mrs T. F. Gibson. The Committee agreed to let repayment of a loan to a soldier stand over for a few months. The Commissioner of Pensions wrote re a man who had to be re-ad-mitted to hospital, and agreed to the granting of a pension uf 15s per week. The local committee had granted the man relief at its previous meeting. A letter was received from the Tai hape Association asking whether an application for assistance should be granted to an applicant from this district—lt was decided to reply tha‘ the case was an unsatisfactory one. An application for a loan of was declined, the man in question be ing already granted £IOO on loan. The action of the Committee was endorsed in granting £2 per week for a month to the wife of a soldier, also 30s per week in another case where the wife was ill and the husband in hospital. In the latter case the Committee decided to make application Jor a pension lor the soldier during lus temporary trouble. An application for a loan of £IOO to pay' a half-year’s rent in event of the applicant drawing a section in a ballot was referred to Palmerston North as it was their . case. The War Relief Association asked that the Committee interview a man in reference to a loan for medical expenses. Action was approved in .granting £5 through the Hawke’s Bay War Relief Association. It. was decided to ask the Mayor oi Shannon to supply more particulars re application of a soldier for assist ance to buy a horse and cart. A casual applicant for relief was declined as an unsatisfactory case. The Hawke’s Bay Association wrote stating that they would release the widow of a soldier from a loan of £SO and also pay ccst of release. An application for a loan of £SO was granted.