With the actual food station for the refugees transferred to the Vaad Leumi, the National Council of Palestine Jews, the Jewish Agency is now grappling with the numerous reconstruction problems, specially appointed committees having been named to handle these questions.
The entire relief question is a most delicate one. The emergency funds are destined only for relief and reconstruction in cases of damages and suffering directly caused by the disturbances. There are, however, a great many individuals and institutions who suffered indirectly through the loss of normal trade and occupations as well as institutional income from abroad. The present policy, while spelling hardship to the institutions and individuals not directly affected, must stand, it is generally considered, if the greatest possible use is to be made of the funds for which collections, it is understood here, were to be discontinued on Yom Kippur.
Sir John Chancellor, High Commissioner, despatched £200 to the Haifa District Commissioner. The fund was sufferers.” The District Commission-earmarked “for distribution among the or divided the money equally between Arab and Jewish institutions.
A nurses home at the Motz Sanatorium will be erected by the Jewish workers’ sick benefit society. Funds amounting to $6,000 for this purpose were sent by the Canadian Hadassah.
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