ALL PURPOSES APPEAL

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 18, 18 February 1942, Page 5

ALL PURPOSES APPEAL

SUM OF £2300 REQUIRED

WHAKATANE'S QUOTA

In a circular letter to burgesses, the Mayor, Mr B. S. Barry* has set out details for the collection of the town's percentage of the newly released All Purposes Appeal,

The Auckland Province is called upon by the Provincial Patriotic Council to raise the sum of £500,000 for patriotic purposes by December 31 next, the amount allotted to the Whakatane Borough (including Ohope) Patriotic District being £2.300. The fund raising methods heretofore adopted are now impracticable to some extent, for which reason the executive of the lccai committee has decided to raise the bulk of the amount required by asking residents for direct contributions during each of the remaining months of this year, Februsry to December inclusive.

Forty-five helpers have been good enough to. agree to assist in the collection and within the next few days one will call ifpon householders respecting the February donation. He subsequently will again call each month covering the duration of the Appeal and the committee solicits a regular assistance, Avhich it trusts' will be commensurate with the importance of the objects of the Appeal.

Citizens will be interested to know that the bulk of the funds collected ?<re being earmarked and definitely set aside for after care and assistance to members of the Fighting Services upon their discharge, 80 per cent of the funds heretofore raised in the province having been set aside for this purpose.

Some objccts of expenditure under the new appeal fund are set cut hereunder for the information cf contributors.

Comforts and assistance to the sick and wounded. Weekly parcels, through appropriate channels to prisoners of war. Comforts to. naval, military and air force personnel on troopships and overseas. Comforts to men on visiting escort vessels. Entertainments, radios and films, sports gear, etc. for men in camp. Provision of wool for knitted comforts, gift parcels for service men overseas. Maintenance and equipment of recreational huts. Provis-

ion or supplementing of regimental funds for troops overseas. Amenities, sports gear and comforts for men on coast watching and other stations in New Zealand. Cigarettes, song books, stationery, games, band instruments, reading matter, etc. as necessary wherever possible. Emergency assistance for members of the fighting forces or their dependents in necessitous circumstances. Relief of distress arising, from* air raids in England. .After care and assistance to necessitous ex-members of the fighting forces and their dependents.