The Government has decided to ive a quarter of a million public money in aid of the distressed mining areas, and to match whatever is raised by charity with an equal sum. The Government's involves the—following'
£150,000 at once to the Lord Mayor's Fund, this being at the rate of £1 for every £1 al ready subscribed; £1 for every £1 subseribed in fature; and £100,000 at ling the transfer to other districts of the families of married men who are placed in situations. The Government has consulted the Lord Mayor, who has consented to extend the scope of his fund to include the provision of meals for adults and children who may require additional now 1 in the winter months, the Cabinet undertaking to provide the Lord Mayors of Cardiff and Newcastle with the administrative assistance required. This assistance will plementary to. and not in rep ment of, the existing public servi For i. local education ave thorition will continue to exercise} ing powers for feo children and will continue io receive! grants from the Board]
ication. They will he able to supplement their resources by cooperating with the local committee of the Lont Mayor's Fund, which, for this purpose, will act' as. the school canteen committee. Already' the cost of feeding throughout the} country amounts to about £5,000 a week, As the average cost is put at 2d, a meal, this means 400,000] neals are being provided every week, a number considerably in excess of the normal.
Ma readers in seven lays have provided more than. £50,000 for 120,000 Christmas hampers. The'British Legion relief department has allocated a sum to each area of the 1. for the] purpose of supplying coinfer's. to vice men and their tamiles in distress. The official organ of thy miners reported that one day last week an elderly and rather shabbily dressed man called at the Fede tion's office and left a small. box, the contents of which were t> be used for the relief of distress. refused to take a receipt and asked only for On being pene the ae] paper acknowledg of Queen Vietoria's reign.
The Football Association of Wales has made a grant of £50 ani is appealinsy to all clubs in the Principality: support the relief funds. Lord 1 dale has sent £100 to the fund which is being raised by the Chief Constable of Cumberland and Westmorland to provide food and coal for distressed families at Christmas time, Well-to-do towns in the south are] the mons destitute districts in Wales. Fam: jes in comfortable circumstances are also "adopting" suffering, families the mining areas and coming to their aid in quite lavish fashion. The YALCA. is issuing many appeals fon these lines. Sir Thomas Irish the Attorney-General, has taken under his wing six Welsh mining families. The children of Princess Mary and the Duchess of York have sent large consignments of toys to children in the needy areas; the Queen and other members of the Royal Family are providing boots and clothing; and, indeed, it can! safely be said that all sections of the community are doing their best to ensure that some brightness shall be brough: into the Yuletide of the Poor children and destitute fambles through the country.
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