PATRIOTIC BOARD

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 292, 8 September 1942, Page 3

PATRIOTIC BOARD

Ten Months’ Expenditure

A considerable proportion of the expenditure shown in the financial .statement for the 10 mouths to the end of July submitted to a recent meeting ot the National Patriotic Fund Board in Wellington was tor New Zealand sick and wounded and prisoners of war. In respect of all the accounts there was a net credit balance of £68,198.

Payments in the 10 months on account of prisoners of war included imprests of £lO,OOO remitted to England and £22,675 to Canada to cover the cost of comforts sent on behalf of New Zealand, £66,008 for the purchase of supplies to send from New Zealand, and grants aggregating £1250 to overseas organizations. The total expenditure on prisoners of war was £100,633. Expenditure on sick and wounded included £256-1 remitted to Egypt, a payment of £50,626 to the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society as the board’s expending agent for eick jtnd wounded and prisoners of war, £5919 for the provision of comforts for New Zealand patients in. overseas hospitals, and grants of £3750 to overseas organizations.

Among the larger items of expenditure from the general account were imprests of £lO,OOO remitted to England, £83,052 to Egypt, £9590 to Fiji, and £l7OB to Canada : payments to the board's expending agents for welfare work (including £75,000 to the Y.M.C.A., £34,000 to the Church of England Military Affairs Committee, £19,000 to the Salvation Army, and £13,205 to the Catholic War Services Fund Board), and £69,110 for the purchase of stock for the New Zealand Forces Club, Cairo.