CANTEEN FUND CLAIM
POSITION OF SOLDIERS’ DEPENDENTS Inquiries are to be made by the Soldiers’ Mothers League from the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, and officials of the canteen funds, regarding the provisions, if any, made for the benefit of dependents of fallen soldiers. In these cases, assistance is at present being given by patriotic societies. The league believes that widows and widowed mothers of the soldiers have a direct claim on funds held by the Canteen and Regimental Funds Trust Board. ** ' vas agreed that the Charitable Aid Board should supply food in urgent appeals from mothers, no matter what part of New Zealand where the applicants reside, pending the board’s action on the boundary question. A case mentioned was where a woman with four children arrived penniless from Taumarunui. She was refused assistance twice. Her husband had walked from Taumarunui in search* of work The league consider the case to be an Auckland one as the people had been only IS months absent from the citv seeking work in the King Country. On tho league application, food was granted for a fortnight and the husband gained work through {he labour
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 934, 29 March 1930, Page 10
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191CANTEEN FUND CLAIM Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 934, 29 March 1930, Page 10
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