NATIONAL PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3993, 28 July 1915, Page 4

NATIONAL PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

THE WELLINGTON CONFERENCE (Press Association Telegram A WELLINGTON. July 27. A provincial conference of delegates of patriotic committees interested ip the administration of the war relief funds was held in Wellington to-day, the Mayor of Wellington (Mr J. P. Luke) presiding. The suggested scheme for the administration of the funds was outlined, and entailed a discussion which last-off all the afternoon. The scheme, which was prepared by Air C. P. Skerrett-, K.C., is briefly that a society should be constituted unci incorporated for the administration of the funds within the military district, of Wellington. The association should consist exclusively of local societies for raising and administering relief funds within their respective districts, su,h societies to be constituted and incorporated as branch societies of the association. The objects of the'association' should be to control and regulate the administration ot the funds-to some uniform scheme to be determined by the executive committee of the association for relief and benefit of New Zealand soldiers and their dependents and, as far as possible. to spread such relief equitably unit uniformly over the whole district without . reference to locality or amount of money raised for purposes of the fund in each district..

Other obje ts of the association would he to adopt means to prevent the improper exploitation of the funds ot brandies and to assign applications fo v relief from funds to the branches which could most- conveniently deal witn them.

Another object would be to promote the creation of a national fund throughout the Dominion, either by pooling the funds of all the branches or other organisations or by organising and amalgamating with a national organisation having for its object the administration throughout the Dominion of war relief funds and other moneys devoted to similar purposes-