PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3538, 28 July 1920, Page 5

PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

The big question facing the various Patriotic Associations in New Zealand to-day is the matter of making provision, with the balance of the “funds at their permanently disabled soldiers. Some of the Associations have already allocated their funds, distributing them pro rata according to the nature of the disablement. At a meeting of the Wanganui Association a lengthy letter was received from the Auckland Association, in which it was stated that permanently disabled soldiers had been classified into three groups, and the following allocations were proposed: Total disablement. 7(5 to 100 per cent., £3OO to £500; partial, 51 to 75 per cent., £2OO to £300; slight, 40 to 50 per cent., £IOO to- £2OO. The chairman (Mr T. B. Williams) said he was strongly opposed to allocating the funds, as some of the patriotic bo'dies were doing, and thought that each case sheu’d be dealt with on its merits. The Association would have the care of disabled soldiers for many years, and. should carefully conserve its funds to that end. There wmre Wanganui soldiers, sick and disabled, in various parts of the Dominion receiving assistance from the Association- at present.