DOMINION'S PART.
~ BELGIAN RELIEF, FUNDS. STATEMENT BY MR. RUSSELL. NO MOP MONEY TO BE SENT; 1 Wellington, Last Night. Hon..G; W. Russell, Minister for Internal Affairs, states that owing to reports received' regarding Belgium, the 'Government has resolved not to forward liny, more money for the relief of the Belgians in the meantime, as the American Government fiaa fundoitakesi the ■frhole burden of caring for the Belgian . population; neither would the Governpietit jsfcnd any moneys under the present : fenstingipTovuicial quota scheme. It was , f ugge?ted that the moneys obtained now IShonld be held for the purpose of repatriating Belgians after the war. for funds for the relief of Belgium in the British Empire was to be Suspended. Considerable funds; were Mi bjr 'the Sigh Commissioner on account Of ; the Belgian Fund. On March £8 lie liitd : £sl,ooo, and since that date SutV have received £14,000, so that e total voir wag about £48,000. No fuuotmc'ement had yet been made as to jtlie disposal of this money—whether it ; fs to be. handed over to the relief comolr held for the purposes named py Mr. Uusesll. THE EIGHTH BALLOT. mm DIVISION DWINDLING. PATBO9BEOQND DIVISION BALLOT. Wellington, lAst Night. Forthe eighth ballot, commencing toeight thousand names are ,to be taken from the Toll of those regaining in the first 'Division. The Braving is expected to be completed by {Wednesday, and the names of the selected raerrists win be phblished in a Gacette extraordinary on the following Wednesday. i TWi»week's ballot will reduce the roll jbf the-first division to the neighborhood faf tiurty thousand, and three moire ballots, at toe present rats;'will bring the Lumber dpwn to about six thousand. There may be no ballci.in September, (ince the remaining first division men |nay be called up en Woo. , The Te-examination of the men classed |s temporarily unfit and "fit for hfijne kervice only will be begun, not later ,than September and November is mentioned, ; semi officially, as the earliest month in prhict> ti><* Second Division men may bo WlotUd.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1917, Page 5
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335DOMINION'S PART. Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1917, Page 5
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