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INFORMATION
GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
SERVICES BULLETIN
Wednesday, May 17, 1972
EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND
To Be Financed Direct From Government Revenue
The Community Relief Trust Fund is to be renamed the Emergency
Relief Fund and will in future be financed direct from Government
revenue,
On Friday, May 19,the terms of office of all members of the Fund
Raising Committee of the Community Relief Trust Fund will expire, and it is
not proposed to renew any of these appointments as the Fund Raising Committee
will cease to exist.
These developments were announced today (Wednesday) by the Hon.
G.T. Rowe, Director of Social Welfare, and ex-officio Trustee of the
Community Relief Trust Fund and chairman of the Fund Raising Committee.
Members of the Committee have been informed of these changes.
Mr. Rowe explained that the Fund had, in the past, been financed
to a considerable extent from public donations, but a number of recent
developments had led him to consider it necessary to have a more certain
and readily available source of incone.
Among the developments, he listed the introduction of the expanded
public assistance scheme, with the Government's acceptance of one form of
public assistance in case of need.
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