At the time many of the local provineial guilds were actively engaged in evacuating their provincials. In some cases these guilds were able to carry on, and at no time required assistance. from this Committee: in others, guilds less financially well off required assistance at an early date, and there were large numbers of refugees not sufficiently closely associated with any guild, and who were, therefore, not qualified for assistance from these sources, There were also several large refugee associations formed, and in the early stages at least these paid whole or part of the cost of passages for the refugees whom they evacuated. Throughout, the policy followed was that this Committee would utilise its funds for the evacuation of those who could not obtain assistance from any other source.
Where the refugees were in a position to pay part of the cost of their passages, this was collected from them, and the Committee's funds economise accordingly.
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