PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 230, 27 September 1940, Page 6

PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

CONFUSING COMMENT.

"GOOD ADVICE OVERLOOKED"?

HAMILTON, this day.

"On the eve of the launching of the special campaign for patriotic funds, each object of which should have the support of every citizen, it seems a singularly inappropriate time for the Auckland Provincial Patriotic Cnii" •"' ♦ « cast reflections on the New Zealand Red Cross Society, which has done unu i» doing much to assist the country's effort," said Mr. A. E. Gibbons, president of the Waikato Centre of the Red Cross Society.

"The Waikato Centre would welcome the appointment of a Royal Commission to go into the question of raising funds, but if this course is followed it would desire that the field of the commission's inquiries be substantially increased. A deal could be said in reply," added Mr. Gibbons, "hut the needs of our soldiers and those suffering the misfortunes of war in England transcend such statements as were made at Auckland. Sufficient has already been said at patriotic. meetings to confuse the public, and kill the spontaneous enthusiasm of many willing workers. The good advice and direction given by the chairman of the National Patriotic Council at a recent meeting in Wellington of patriotic council secretaries seems to have been overlooked by the provincial council in its deliberations, but no good purpose will be served by enlarging on the whole regrettable affair."