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Wednesday, August 2, 1972
DISTRIBUTION OF COMMUNITY RELIEF TRUST FUND DONATIONS
Of the total $16.5 million donated to the Community Relief Trust Fund
up to July 29, approximately $7.5 million have been paid out to victims,
$2 million set aside for rehabilitation and orphans funds, and about $7
million have still to be allocated.
The Hon. G.T. Rowe, Director of Social Welfare and Fund Trustee,
told the Ļegislative Council today that the Fund's Management Committee
hoped to meet in the second part of this month "to finalise outstanding
proposals on how to use up the remaining money, and generally to bring
the affairs of the Fund up to date."
He was replying to the Hon. Q.W. Lee who had asked the Government
to state how the funds subscribed by the public following the recent
rainstorm disasters had been, or were being, utilised.
Mr. Rowe said the Fund had been applied to assist those in need
as a result of loss of members of the family, serious damage or loss of
domestic accommodation, and damage to crops and livestock.
He hoped to publish a statement of accounts relating to the money
received as soon as it was reasonably possible to do so. Claims were still
coming in, and payments were still being made.
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