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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.

/He also