ASSISTANCE TO SOLDIERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1921, Page 5

ASSISTANCE TO SOLDIERS.

QUESTION OF RECIPROCITY.

TARANAKI AND AUCKLAND.

The question of reciprocity among patriotic associations regarding assistance to soldiers who leave one district and take up residence in another was discussed on Wednesday by the execu-

tive of the Auckland Patriotic Association. The discussion arose from a letter received from the Advisory Board requesting the opinion of the executive as to whether the annual conference of delegates of patriotic associations should be held at Wellington next month. as usual. The chairman, Mr. J. 11. Gunson, said the secretary had written to the Advisory Board stating that the executive considered the conference should be held, and that the delegates should discuss the position of sick and wounded Taranaki soldiers requiring assistance who Were resident outside the Taranaki province. The Taranaki Association had informed the Auckland Association that it was unable to entertain further applications of such a nature. The position was that the Taranaki Association was confining its activities to the applications in hand of permanently disabled soldiers. There was every indication that those cases would absorb the balance of the Taranaki fund.

Discussion ensued as to whether the association should assist sick and wounded Taranaki men now resident in the Auckland district.

It was decided that the question be considered by the Advisory Board at Wellington next month, and that Mr. V. J. Larner, the Auckland Association’s delegate, submit a report to the executive on his return. Meanwhile, it was decided that assistance to sick and iwounded Taranaki men now resident lift. AunkUfid would be continued,