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Relief Fund in London be informed that the Taranaki refugees in Nelson are provided by the General Government with the necessaries of life, but that the rules under which relief is afforded by the Government being necessarily uniform, are unequal in their operation, and that some families, from being deprived of comforts to which they have been accustomed, suffer from their exile much more than others.
"That there are many instances of families which, from their previous habits of life, from the age and sex of their members, or from other circumstances, are unable to provide themselves with proper clothing or other necessaries and comforts, beyond the bare subsistence provided by the Government, and that the subscriptions of the public are of essential service in enabling the Committee to diminish the amount of suffering inseparable from the present unhappy state of affairs at Taranaki, and which the administration of a uniform system alone is inadequate to relieve.
"That the Committee in this resolution confine themselves to the subject of immediate relief to the refugees from Taranaki now in this province, and make no reference to the more extended assistance which will be required at the close of the war to enable the settlers of Taranaki again to maintain their families within their own province."
Carried unanimously.
(Signed) Wm. WILLS,
Chairman.
A true extract from the minutes.
(Signed) Oswald Curtis,
Honorary Secretary.
Printed by G. W. Wooln for the Provincial Government.
Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1861, No 3
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🏘️ Provincial & Local GovernmentTaranaki War, Relief Fund, Settlers, Aid, Colonial Government
- Wm. Wills, Chairman
- Oswald Curtis, Honorary Secretary