In the annual report of the trustees of the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen fund (more commonly known as the Flock House Fund) an impressive detailed list is quoted of the names of the ships on which husbands or fathers were killed in the Great War whose dependents subsequently received assistance from the fund. The list covers nearly the whole of the operations of the British Navy and the Mercantile Marine in the Great War. Further, a precis is given of references of gratitude from letters from over 100 persons who received assistance from the funds, and they make a moving and telling record of the service of the fund to older persons residing in Great Britain. Nearly all these cases, it is stated, and many others, will continue to receive the weekly grants from the fund as long as the recipients live.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1940, Page 6
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