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PATRIOTIC COMMITTEES

MEETING OP 'ADVISORY BOABD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Oct. 2fi, The Advisory Board of the Patriotic War Relief Societies Federation met to-day. The Minister of Defence wrote that it was proposed to increase widowed mothers' allowances to 10s Gd, arid to raise the limit of income Ito 10s. Some time ago the Advisory Board wrote to the Minister of Defends Urging that the Financial Assistance Sourd be empowered to assist sailors anU dieir dependents in the same way as sbrfliers and their dependents, are now, being helped. The Minister replied that the matter was still before Cabinet. The board considered the reply of the Minister of Lands to its suggestions with reference to the settling of returned soldiers on the land was most satisfactory. '

Correspondents also showed that tha Government was giving every consideration to the question of the technical training of returned soldiers. The board considered the replies of Ministers to its representations on {be subject were satisfactory. A letter, believed to be from a tnmn« ber of the Rifia was reld, urging that funds be given to supple* ment army rations, so as to give greater variety.' 1 The board resolved to ask the edcletiea to send £2so'now and. £260 In six months time to meet cases of the kind referred to by the writer. The meeting passed a motion con* gratulating the Government upon the amended scale of separation allowances, and expressing the opinion that the scale in as liberal as the circumstances of the Dominion will permit.

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Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1917, Page 5

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PATRIOTIC COMMITTEES Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1917, Page 5

PATRIOTIC COMMITTEES Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1917, Page 5

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