PATRIOTIC FUND

Evening Star, Issue 23699, 5 October 1940, Page 16

PATRIOTIC FUND

FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION CONTRIBUTIONS TOTAL £743.996 [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, October 4. An outstanding feature of ttie accounts for tne first complete year of operation which were presented to the Standing Committee of the National Patriotic fund hoard at a meeting to-day was the low cost of administration. During the year the board received from all sources contributions amounting to £743,996, and the cost of administering those funds was only £BB9 10s sd. Included in this sum were the travelling expenses to England of the board’s overseas commissioner, Lieutenant-colonel F. Waite. The administration expenses work out at onetenth per cent, of the total amount received, or 2s for every £IOO of contributions handled. The main items of expenditure relate to grants for the provision of amenities and comforts within New Zealand. The Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society has had for this purpose £11,500; the Salvation Army, £13,559; the Y.M.C.A., £35,999; the Church of England Military Affairs Committee, £3,000; and the Catholic War Service Fund, £3,695. Part of the moneys in these accounts was for the erection and equipping or recreation huts in military ’ camps. When the audited statements from these organisations are received, these huts and equipment, as the property of the board, will be incorporated in the board’s accounts. The hoard took over the assets and | liabilities of the Church of England Military Affairs Committee and the Catholic War Service Fund at the end of June, and when these audited statements are received the assets and liabilities of the organisations will .also be incorporated in the board’s accounts. The following are details of the expenditure : —Comforts on convoys for troops, £871; troops in New Zealand, £1,812; troops overseas, £4,129; first echelon, £1,692; second echelon, £2,364; third echelon, £1,990; regimental funds, £985; sick and wounded, £5,392; Air Force relations organisation, £1,527 15s 9d; grants overseas, including Toe H, London, £500; Salvation Army, - London, £622 10s; Y.W.C.A., London, £3,501; Victoria League, London, £25; Red Cross organisations, £15,572; Lord Mayor of London’s Relief of Distress Fund, £IOO,OOO. In addition amounts have been remitted for contingency funds for the provision of comforts for the New Zealand forces overseas. The amounts sent in this way are as follows: —Egypt, £6,735; England, £6,225; sick and wounded, Egypt, £6,250; sick and' wounded, England, £12,450. Other expenditure includes £1,729 for military bands for the purchase of equipment, £97 for a library service for the troops, £561 for the Lady Galway Guild, £176 for the Navy League, and £1,300 for the purchase of a hostel for the Papakura Camp, Auckland. The comforts in stock are valued at £1,935.

The investments comprise £60,000 on fixed deposit with the trading banks and £420,000 in Treasury bills. Cash in hand amounts to £lO 18s sd, and' in the bank account there is £15,454 6s 4d. The present state of the national fund is £495,465. Part of the, amount remitted for the relief of distress in London will be repaid to the board as a result of the splendid response made by the people of the Dominion. The total expenditure shown to date is £248,531, but in this amount is included money that has been sent overseas for contingency purposes and not yet been spent. A large proportion of the expenditure is non-recurring. The account as presented did not include sundry credits and debtors or interest accrued, but not due, which will have to be brought into the board’s balance sheet for the year.

OTAGO PROVINCIAL COUNCIL '

ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Additional donations received to October 3 by the Otago Provincial Patriotic Council are as follows:— £ s. d. Previously acknowledged North Otago zone £599 7s lOd (Oamaru Borough Council £5 9s 6d. Windsor Committee £15, Waitaki County Council 40,934 9 6 £100) Dunedin Community Sing Com719 17 4 mittee (for Christmas parcels) Otago Queen Carnival Executive 612 10 0 imprest grant refunded) King Edward Technical College staff jubilee fund (proceeds of 250 0 0 school concert) zone £1 15s (Arrowtown Citizens’ Committee £8 5s; Kingston Committee £10. Wanaka Committee 14s 6d, Gleuorchy Committee £11, Queenstown Committee £64 240 0 0 10s 6d) ... 96 6 0 Staff. N.Z. Railways South Otago zone £44 Ss 6d (Awamangu Women’s Institute £12, Hiliend Committee 77 2 4 £1- 2s) 57 7 6 Christmas gift parcels donations 45 18 6 Maniototo zone (Becks Committee £41 Ss 6d) Peninsula sub-zone (Waverley Committee £5 9s, Highcliff Committee £8. Macandrew Bay Committee £16 17s 9d, Broad Bay Committee £3 5s, Taieri sub-zone (Allanton Committee £25, Mosgiel Business41 5 6 men’s Association £13 6s 8d) Tuapeka zone (Lawrence Committee £28 18s, Roxburgh 38 8 8 Committee £6) Otago Wrestling Association, 34 18 0 Inc. (M’Cready-O’Connor and M'Cready-Katan contests) ... 26 10 8 Palmerstori-Waihcmo sub-zone 23 5 0 Port Chalmers sub-zone 21 0 0 Ocean Beach Domain Board ... 20 0 0 Interest 20 0 0 “Ee Hist” ... 13 10 0 Staff, Roslyn Mills Staff, Post an'd Telegraph Department (fifth instalment; 13 2 3 total to date £75) Staff, Pleasant Valley Sana10 0 0 torium Vincent zone (Omakau Committee £2 10s, Alexandra Committee £1 10s, Earnscleugh 9 16 6 Cricket Club £5) 9 0 0 Strf, M’Lead Bros. Ltd. Waikouaiti sub-zone (Sawyers 6 3 0 Bay Committee) “ Anonymous ” Staff, M'Kenzies Ltd., George 5 12 0 5 0 0 street 4 16 0 Staff, Rominson’s Confectionery 4 12 3 Staff, Wm. Nees and Sons Ltd. Wm. Nees and Sons Ltd. (sub4 10 0 sidy) 4 10 0 Staff, Otago Brush Company ... Staff, Bank of New Zealand 4 6 6 Ltd 3 19 0 Macandrew Bay Orphans’ Club 3 16 3 Staff, Ernest Adams Ltd. 2 16 3 “ Father of Eight ” 2 10 0 “ Quarterly Superannuation ” 2 10 0 Miss MTver 2 10 0 Staff, P. Hayman and Co. ... Staff, Milbiirn Cement Works, 2 6 6 Burnside Staff, Chas. Begg and Co. Ltd. 2 6 0 (August donation) 2 0 0 ' Staff, Provident Life Assurance 1 19 6

Otago Girls’ High School 1 18 6 Street day collection (additionaD 1 13 7 Donations per Station 4Z.B ... 1 11 6 Otago Girls’ High School 1 5 0 Staff. Lucia Frock Shop 1 1 0 Staff. King Edward Technical College 1 1 0 “ Anonymous 1 0 0 Miss Dlvlh 1 0 0 Staff, W. E. C. Uriel auO Co. 0 10 6 Miss Mooro 0 5 0 f.43,432 5 10