PATRIOTIC WORK.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1917, Page 5

PATRIOTIC WORK.

MEETTNQ OF PATRIOTOa ' COMMITTEE. ... ■' JOS T tln * of &* Ktm *r* ■ mouth Patriotic Committee was heJdlwt • evening, when there were pneeafc— Messrs C. H. Burgess (fa, tie etair), W„ J. Chaney, C. E. Bellringer, J. K. »JL J. 'Baton,' J. McLaod, J. Oarke 0 £Mbr T. C.List, C. Carter, A. B. OjSojmWv™ L. If. Monteath (secretary). It was decided to instruct the Mmk» (Mr. C. E. Bellringer) to the WffW* Association to support the grafting of loans to returned joldiers to an amotai not exceeding £SOO, and the glutting of a clothing allowance to eokUert on their discharge where necessary. It was decided to grant fT6 towufc ' the Serbian Relief Fund. The Treasurer reported 1 that the jowl Patriotic Fund stood at £W, MWal amounts being earmarked for the nK. O.A. Fund, which are to 'he formrded to headquarters. The North Taranaki Patriotic League wrote protesting against Waitara district for, gifts of stock, etc., for tho Y.M.C.A. funds, which wM ft breach of the regulations and «£*»»«*■■ ■" the understanding that existed 'between, patriotic societies.—Mr. Ohanev, deposy. chairman, reported that he 'Had replied ■ that there was no intention of enamelling on Waitara's territory. The BMunderstanding evidently arose from the fact that some friends of the Pierrots were, sending in stock to help then is their £IOOO Day. Mr, F. Norris, organiser of the New . Zealand National Service' League, forwarded a circular re provision being mado for erecting and maintaining a training college for disabled eoldttM, whereat thev could learn new craft* and industries.—The feeling of the meeting was that the scheme wag impracticable, and that the better plan would be to ' widen the scope of the existing tedttfail schools, where the disabled soldierA*a*M learn new trados, with perhaps provision for training in special subjeets in a central place like Wellington.' Mr. J. Clarke reported that the Pierrots' £IOOO Day, being conducted under the the Patriotic ConariHet, was going oiv satisfactorily, and thai there was no doubt now that the. SUM would be raised.