MOUNTING FIGURES
FIGHTING SERVICES WELFARE APPEAL The Joint Committee of the Y.M.C.A. and the Salvation Army set up to carry out the above appeal met yesterday when the Chairman,. Sir James Grose, reported that the receipts had amounted to £101,910 lis 2d. There Avas in addition a sum of £3000 yet to come in. The expenses had amounted to only £3763 15s Bd, or 3.5 per cent of the receipts, which will leave a net balance in the fund of probably £101,000. Sir James Grose, in expressing his deep satisfaction at the splendid result accruing from the effort, referred to the fine, spirit of co-opera-tion which had existed throughout. Colonel Burton, in the absence of the Commissioner of the Salvation Army, heartily supported this statement. It was finally resolved "That as the business for which the committee had been set up, had bee'n brought to a conclusion, it was cided to disband, and advise the National Patriotic Fund Board, that the committee would again be pleas ed to act should the necessity ari'se.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 194, 2 August 1940, Page 3
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173MOUNTING FIGURES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 194, 2 August 1940, Page 3
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