PATRIOTIC ZONES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 53, 2 March 1945, Page 5

PATRIOTIC ZONES

PRESENT YEAR QUOTAS £6000 FROM WHAKATANE On a recommendation from the Opoti'ki zone of the Bay of Plenty Patriotic Council to the meeting held on Monday at Rotorua in the Municipal it was'decided that. Patriotic quotas for the year should be based on the. mean population and rateable capital value. A recommendation from the Rotorua zone supported, this method of fixing quotas for the year so far as the Bay of Plenty Council was concerned. The secretary, Mr L. J. advised that the quotas for the four different zones of the Council would be: Matamata 33 per cent, Rotorua 28 per cent., Whakatane 25 perccentt t and Opotiki 14. per cent. The total amount to be raised by the Council will be £24, 000 made up as follows: National levy £15921, parcels £6780, and miscellaneous, expenditure £1299. Matamata further advised that the zone executive had decided at its last meeting to adhere as nearly as possible to last year's quota of £7946 made up as follows: Due National Budget £5308, Domestic and Provincial expenditure £2638. The amount set by this zone as due to the National Budget has been worked on the mean population and rateable capital value. A letter was received from the National Secretary advising that at the last Dominion Patriotic conference the following resolution was. carried: "That preparations be now put in hand for an organised Dominion including the use of the radio for funds for the afterCare of servicemen; such appeal to be launched when Germany accepts the Allied terms., or when peace is declared." The meeting was presided over by the Mayor of Rotorua, Mr P. A. Kusabs and delegates attended from Whakatane, Matamata, Tirau, Opotiki and other centres in the Bay of Plenty area.