DISTRESS RELIEVED

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 951, 19 April 1930, Page 16

DISTRESS RELIEVED

R.S.A. ACTIVITIES IN AUCKLAND SUCCESSFUL WORK SHOWN | Of £1,500 allocated to the Auckland I Returned Soldiers’ Association by the ! Canteen Funds Board for relieving unemployment among ex-servicemen, £146 was given out to provincial -jciations. With the balance, and JO subsidy from the City Council, i ._c association found work for 220 men. among them being a number of partly disabled men. The work was for periods from a few days to several weeks. Temporary assistance was given in 304 cases, but, states the annual report of the association, to be read at the meeting on April 29, the coming winter is expected to be a severe one for those needing relief. In the past year, the association has assisted 144 appellants in requests to the War Pensions Appeal Board. Of these, 104 were upheld and 13 deferred. Since March. 1925, 625 appellants have been assisted. For the first time in five years, the association’s income has exceeded expenditure. In the income of £906, £570 in subscriptions and £206 from Poppy Day allocations were included. Had there not been expense in connection with the rehabilitation commission, the income would have been larger. Of the £1,399 collected on Poppy Day last year, £260 was handed to local bodies and used, with pound for pound subsidies by them, for relief. The Poppy Day trustees themselves used £589 in relieving distress. More than £4,000 has bqen received toward the erection of a roll-of honour at the War Memorial Museum. Membership had increased from 912 to 1,093. The Anzac Banner essay contest, with “The Cenotaph” as subject, will close on April 30, and the Anzac Anthem, composed by Mr. J. Youlin Birch and Mr. J. Maughan Barnett, will be on sale on Poppy Day, next Thursday.