ALLOCATION OF FUNDS
PATRIOTIC COUNCIL'S
BUDGET
COMFORTS FOR OVERSEAS
Included in the General Estimates of £167,200 is an item of £150,000 for the relief of the United Kingdom, for which the conference of Patriotic Councils held at Wellington recently deemed it desirable to make provision, notwithstanding the authoritative advice received by the Board from London that, in the absence of considerable air raids, further grants from New Zealand were not considered to be called for at present. Comforts for the Forces overseas have been catered for by an allocation ol' £61,600. These include tobacco and cigarettes, sports gear, motion picture projectors, etc. (£36000); indoor games, tobacco, eigarettcs, boxing gloves, stationery, for reinforcements on troopships (£4,000); parcels and comforts for members of Merchant Navy trading in danger zones (£1500); Marine freight on unaddressed gift parcels, to be claimed from War Expenses Account (£20,000) . For actual cash disbursements on comforts, canteens, stores, regimental grants, etc., imprests totalling £111,700 have been made available as follows: England (10,000 men), £30,000: Eigypt (40,000 men) £75,000; Fiji (3000 men), £2500; Canada (2000 men in transit), £3000, including £1,000 establishment expenses of "Down Under Club," the maintenance costs o>f which are shared equally by Australian and New Zealand patriotic authorities; Singapore. £1000. An item of £10,000 is set down in anticipation of losses on the running of the N.Z. Forces Clubs in Cairo, London and Fiji. The sum of £3000 is earmarked for the purchase of provisions for sale in the mobile canteens in the Middle East. These stocks are available for distribution free in emergencies. For the provision of military band equipment, including replacements, due to losses in Crete, and music for stocks, nn allowance of £3000 is made.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 193, 15 December 1941, Page 5
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283ALLOCATION OF FUNDS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 193, 15 December 1941, Page 5
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