PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 51, 11 May 1942, Page 2

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

NATIONAL BOARD EXPENDITURE FOR HALF YEAR Large items in the statement of accounts of the National Patriotic Fund Board for the first six months of the Board's current year were the payments made under several headings for the provision of comforts for New Zealand prisoners of Avar. These included £22,(575 remitted to the Canadian Red Cross, £10,000 remitted to the British Red, Cross and £2!),<501 lor the purchase- of supplies for food parcels packed in New Zealand, a total of £62,53(5. The amounts remitted to Canada and CJreat Britain were for the purpose of enabling parcels to be packed and despatched from those countries to New Zealand prisoners until parcels I'reni this country began to reach them, the object being to aA'oid a time lag. The financial statement generally reflects the growing demands being made upon the patriotic funds. Purchases of comforts in Noaa 7 Zealand for the New Zealand Forces, overseas accounted for over £13,000, in addition to which for general purposes £13,Q12 Avas remitted to Egypt, £10.000 to England, £(5205 to Fiji. £1708 to Canada, and £250 to- Singapore. Stock to the value of £42,670 was purchased for the New Zealand Forces Club in Egypt, and also stock costing £7(515 for mobile and other canteens in Egypt, as Avell as £1279 worth of stock for canteens in England. Another item of expenditure on behalf of the Ncav Zealand Forces in Egypt Avas £2276 for ingredients for the manufacture of ice cream. To finance their Avar Avork among the New Zealand Forces remittances were made out of the National Fund of £6500 to the Catholic War Services Fund Board, £16,000 to the Church of England Military Affairs Committee, £8000 to the Salvation Army, and £38,000 to the Y.INI.C.A. Another important item of expenditure Avas £18,401 made by the Board o:i behalf of the Provincial Patriotic Council for wool for the knitting of Avool'en comforts. The Provincial Councils-, reimburse the National Fund for the cost of the avool they obtain.