THE BELGIAN APPEAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 52, 4 March 1915, Page 5

THE BELGIAN APPEAL

PROPOSAL TO HOLD DOMINION CONFERENCE. Pee Press .Association. "Wellington, .March 3. In view of the cable received from the Secretary of State for the Colonics regarding the Belgian Relief Fund, it lias now been decided by His Excellency the Governor and the Prime Minister that a conference of representatives of the chief collecting agencies in the larger towns for the Poor of Great Britain, Ireland, and Belgium Relief Fund, the Belgian Fund, and possibly the.St. John Ambulance Association, should be convened by the Prime Minister. The object of the meeting will be to endeavour to put the organisation for raising relief funds on a more satisfactory and businesslike basis, and to prevent overlapping in order that individual effort may be stimulated and properly directed instead of being .stifled or wasted. A suggestion will also be considered that a central officer be appointed, either from the Government service or from outside it, to receive all moneys for the various funds and transmit them to the agents of the different funds at Home the latter to be approved by the Imperial Government. The Conference will probably lie held at Government House, and His Excellency will preside. If the necessary arrangements 3an be made in time, it wil be held next week.