COMFORTS WEEK CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1916, Page 5

COMFORTS WEEK CAMPAIGN.

ADMINISTRATION' OF PROCEEDS. .The manner in which the money raised during Comfort* Week should be allocated was discussed at last evening .s meeting of the New 'Plymouth Patriotic Committee. The Comforts AVeok Committee brought down a recommendation to the efl'cet that o,t the £I3OO raised tbonld be forwarded to the Y.M.C.A., ,CIOO voted to the Blind Soldiers' and Sailors' Institute, and the balance allocated to tl'.e Women's Patriotic Committee in monthly instalments of £IOO each until the money wP.s exhausted. Mr. C. Cartel, chairman of the Com-: forts Week Committee, in moving the | adoption of the recommendations, said that, in addition to the £S.O voted for | the Y.M.C.A., a sum of .C2UO had been voted to it from the Tobacco Fund. In recommending the allocation of the balance to the Women s Patriotic (omniittee, it was known that a large proportion of this money would be .i.i- ---; warded to the Y.M.C.A for distribution at the front. He referred to the splendid work done bv the ladiei during Comforts Week, and he ielt that if wa-> ouiv right that their organisation should be entrusted with the administration of a large proportion of the amount raised. In answer to Mr. J. MeLeod, M;. Carter said that the Salvation Army s application for assistance hail been declined, because that application had reference to work at Tventbam Camp,