PATRIOTIC FUNDS NATIONAL COLLECTION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20068, 14 October 1939, Page 9

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

NATIONAL COLLECTION

PLAN OF CONTROL BOARD AND COUNCIL PERSONNEL ANNOUNCED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The personnel of the 'National Patriotic Fund Board and of the National Patriotic Council were announced last night by the Minister of Internal Affairs. the Hon. W. E. Parry. The board, comprising 14 members, and the council, consisting of 21 members, which were set up under the patriotic purposes emergency regulations gazetted on October 4, will have the responsibility of administering the regulations governing monies and goods collected by patriotic efforts. The general function of the board is to administer the national fund in accordance with the provisions of the regulations, so that the finance is expended to the 'best advantage.

The council will fulfil an advisory function on all matters affecting the administration of the regulations and has power to make such investigations and inquiries as it considers necessary, or as the Minister directs. The Minister said that the representative standing of the members of the board and of the council in the different sections of the community from which they were drawn would ensure the public of sound administration of the Dominion's patriotic funds. The bodies set up would establish co-ordination of the objectives and efforts. "They will safeguard the public against there coming into being of a myriad of collecting agencies as happened in the Great War," he continued. "They will see that no large sums are lost to the funds, that public generosity is not exploited, that the public is not subjected to an almost constant barrage of collecting with no guarantee that the moneys generously and patriotically given are used to the best advantage.” The following are the members of the National Patriotic Fund Board: The Governor-General, Viscount Galway, the Hon. Mark Fagan, the ’Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, the Hon. W. Perry, Sir Robert Anderson, Mr. L. 0. H. Tripp, Mi'. J. J. Esson, Mr. T. A. Duncan, Mr. F. W. Schramm, M.’P„ Mr. W. Mulholland, Mr. H. Tai Mitchell, Mr. J. Roberts, Mr. J. T. Paul, and Mr. B. C. Ashwin. The following arc the members of the National Patriotic Council: Viscountess Galway, Mrs. Janet Fraser, wife of the Hon. P. Fraser, Princess Te Puea Heryngi, Sir Ernest Davis, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, Mr. R. M. Macfarlane, M.P., Mr. A. H. Allen, Mr. D. W. Coleman, M.'P., Mr. T Jordan, the Hon. F. Waite, Mr. J. G. Barclay, M.P., Mr. J. Hargest, M.P., Mr. J. A. Lee, M.P., Mrs. E. T. Tirikatene, M.P., Mr. S. C. J. Talbot, Mr. J. A. Cowles, Mr. B. J. Jacobs, Mr. R. H. Nimrno, Mr. W. Hustler Smith, Dr. Alexander Gillies. Mr. J. W. Keenan. Mr. Jordan is to be the chairman of the council.