WOUNDED SOLDIERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1915, Page 2

WOUNDED SOLDIERS.

SCHEME FOR RELIEF. The Mayor of .New Plymouth (Mr. J. E. Wilson) Ims forwarded the following letter to the chairman of the Patriotic Committees of Taranaki:— Your committee is no doubt aware of the proposal which has been under consideration for some time for the federation of committes which arc throughout the Dominion gathering funds for the above purpose. A scheme to carry this proposal into effect has been prepared and "circulated, and a meeting of delegates of Patriotic Committees, etc., is to lie held in Wellington on September 15,-when it is hoped that the matter will be put on a working basis. One of the regulations of the scheme as drafted is that there shall be a number of branches of the New Zealand National War Relief Association constituted throughout the Dominion, or such parts of the Dominion as decide to join in the proposed federation. Each branch, it is proposed, cjhall control and administer the funds vested in it—i.e., the funds raised within its district-tin pursuance of a uniform system or scale of relief to be fixed by the National Association. Each branch will have its own executive committee, and it is hoped that all committees within the branch district working for the relief fund will be affiliated to the branch, so that every part of the district over which the branch works will bo represented for the common good. With a view to ascertaining the ideas of the committees throughout the provincial district of Taranaki, I am convening a meeting of representatives of the committees in that area to be held at Stratford on Wednesday, September 1, at 10 a.m. At this meeting the scheme for the National Association will be discussed and also the suggestion that all the relief committees in the provincial district be incorporated as the Taranaki branch of the National Association . I have the pleasure to invite your committee to send two delegates to the meeting, empowered to state the views of your committee on the matter generally and to record your committee's ,yotc on any proposals put to the meeting.