APPEALS FOR FUNDS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 147, 15 April 1940, Page 5

APPEALS FOR FUNDS

RED CROSS OBJECTS DEFINEDI In referring to the collecting and expending duties of the National Funds Board, Mr G. A. Hacken, secretary of the National Patriotic Council; said at the meeting in the County Chambers on Friday evening that the Salvation Army and Y.M.C.A. were working in the mili tary camps before the regulations governing patriotic activities were framed. The procedure at present was for these bodies to estimate their expenditure on amenities for the! troops and submit the budget to the National Funds Board, which peruses and approves them. Mr Hacken went on to say that the appeal for the fighting services at present being made was for the benefit of the Salvation Army and Y.M.GJA. activities. The next appeal would be for the benefit of tjie joint council of the St. John Association and the Red Cross Society Sick, Wounded and Relief of Distress Fund.

"Under a ruling of the Geneva Convention the Red Cross can only work for the sick and Avounded said Mr Hacken, who informed the meeting that the money collected will not be used for anything else until there are no sick and wounded, when the surplus, if any, will go into a common fund. Mr Hacken revealed that a recent gift to the French Red Cross com- j | prised £500 worth of tinned butter, GOOO cases of apples, tinned meats to the value of £300. It was also stated by Mr Hacken that the New Zealand Red Cross Society had refused to have anything to do with the International Red Cross. While that body was interested in affairs in Allied countries it also had contact with enemy countries and the New Zealand Society was not prepared to see money going to the enemy.