SLOW GIVING OF RELIEF
WESTPORT COMMITTEE CRITICAL SEARCHING QUESTIONS Press Association W'ESTPORT, Today. In reference to the statement by Mr. H. E. Holland, M.P., concerning the Press Association message from W'estport, apparently an omission was made in transmission. as the message handed in to the W'estport oflice read: “In the face of. this the Central Committee asks that the local committee put. its money into the general fund, so that it may be put out at interest.” The statement of receipts and expenditure presented to Saturday’s meeting of the Buller Relief Committee showed payments totalling only £705 165 Id, this including £4OO 7s 6d for the relief of Seddonville residents, arising out of the flood, yet a rough estimate of private damage, excluding certain parts of the district from which no estimates have yet been received, was £82,000. The purport of the message was to show how slowly relief was being afforded, and further to Show that, owing to the searching questions concerning the financial circumstances of the sufferers by the earthquake. asked in the forms issued by the Central Committee, many of them, hard hit though they he, would rather shoulder their burdens than ask for one penny from the relief funds.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 722, 23 July 1929, Page 14
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