GRANTS TO SOLDIERS
AND THEIR DEPENDANTS THE ASSISTANCE BOARD. TOTAL OF NEARLY £160,000 REACHED IN JULY. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. Applications totalling 12,445 had been received by the Soldiers’ Financial Assistance Board up to July 31. said the Minister in Charge of Soldiers' Financial Assistance (Mr Arm-, strong) this morning, when releasing the latest figures covering the board’s operations. The total commitments of the board up to the same date had reached a total of £159,572 Ils Id, Mr Armstrong stated. The board’s commitments indicated that applications were given very generous consideration, to say the least. Applications had been received from the men. in the three services, or their dependants, and there was a maximum grant of £3 a week. The Minister emphasised that the payments made by the board were straight-out gifts, with no obligation for repayment. With every group of men going into camp, an increasing number of applications was received, a position that was understandable in view of the fact that the men now being called up were men with greater commitments and greater family responsibilities than many of those called up previously. The board had been set up early in the war. but its operations on a major scale had only started in the last year or so.
An interesting point was that every member of the board was a returned soldier. In making grants, the board's object was to leave a man’s dependants in a position as near as possible to that in which they lived before the man went into camp. It seemed that assistance was sought principally to meet rent payments. There were many cases where wives, but for assistance from the board would have to give up their homes, to live with relations. With assistance from the board they were able to keep their homes going for the daj r when their husbands returned. The Minister said that from what he knew of its work, the board was a very fine institution, and he had heard very few complaints.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1942, Page 4
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