PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Evening Star, Issue 23686, 20 September 1940, Page 10

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

£1.000,000 REQUIRED LORO GALWAY'S BROADCAST EARLY GALL ON PROVINCIAL FUNDS [Peb United Pbbss Association.] WELLINGTON, September 19. Lord Gahvay broadcast to-night, opening the appeal for £1,000,000 by tne provincial councils, and has himself produced the design from which the poster is being prepared for the first part of the campaign. The main feature of it is the linking together of two hearts symbolical of the close ties between New Zealand and Britain. A detailed financial statement that was submitted to the National Patriotic Fund , Board to-day showed that contributions to the common fund totalled £156,059. Of this, £92,000 had been spent on the provision of general comforts and amenities for the fighting services, and of the remaining £64,000 approximately £27,000 was required to meet further commitments, especially in connection with the fitting up of recreation huts at Waiouru, leaving a balance of £37,000. it would be seen, therefore, said the secretary and treasurer (Mr G. A. Hayden) that the time for the reimbursement of the fund was rapidly approaching. The provincial councils would have to be called upon very shortly to supplement the national fund from their funds in accordance with the arrangements made. £2,000 FOR WOMEN’S WORK.' The board made a grant of £2,000 for its ivork in Great Britain among women’s war organisations. Approval was given to the provision of a recreation hut for the fortress troops at Motutapu Island, Auckland. A grant was made to the Navy Office for the purchase of naval comforts for Christmas. INDIVIDUAL TOBACCO PREFERENCES. After the despatch of the Christmas gift parcels lor the men of the New Zealand lighting forces overseas under the National Patriotic Fund Board’s unaddressed gift iparcels scheme, it has been decided by the board to institute a new system of sending tobacco and cigarettes which should assist in ensuring that the individual tastes of the men will be more nearly met. The board decided at a meeting today to obtain from the canteens at the training camps in New Zealand particulars showing the popularity of the various brands of tobacco and cigarettes with the men in the camps, and then to buy in accordance with the preferences shown by the information from the canteens, and send the cigarettes and tobacco overseas in bulk. The purchasing will be done by the National Patriotic Fund Board, and tlio provincial councils will be asked to provide the necessary funds. The decision was made by the board following a recommendation from the conference of provincial council secretaries which sat in Wellington last week. REPRESENTATIVE IN EGYPT. Advice has been received by the National Patriotic Fund Board that Mr Victor C. Jones, who was general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. in Wellington before he left for overseas with the New Zealand forces, and has been acting as the board’s representative in Egypt, has been offered an appointment as staff captain with the British forces. Appreciation of Mr Jones’s services was expressed by the board at its meeting to-day It was decided to appoint Mr F. E. Long, another Y.M.C.A. secretary, to act as the board’s representative in Egypt till the hoard’s commisisoner, Lieutenant-colonel F. Waite, arrives there.