The Kitchen was doing its utmost to provide food, hut there was generally not enough. Some of the refugees, said Mr. Wolfe, travel three or four miles to secure enough food to last them for 24 hours, and sometimes when they arrived at the kitchen it was not seldom that there was no food left. Sometimes more water had to be used, and the nourishment was thus reduced although there seemed to be more food. Many women and children reesived none of the food because they had no tickets, these being bought at 59 cents a dozen. There' must be a check on the food in order to prevent imposition, hence tickets had to he used Some homes were he-ing provided by missionaries in a small way, but these, said the speaker, did not. bring in dollars to help to aid the poor refugees who will probably remain with us for many months to come. The classes must be stopped. some of the teachers being transferred to other places and some of the buildings being returned to their owners for other purposes. Food must be provided and shelter given. Supervision of the relief work must be carried out by a central committee in order to prevent. overlapping. Some refugees were getting too much. others too little. or none at all. There must be a central committee to which existing charity organizations could appeal for assistance.—financial, advisory and otherwise. This committee would be known as the Refugees Relief Advisory Committee
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