OBJECTIVE OF £1,000,000

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1940, Page 8

OBJECTIVE OF £1,000,000

By Telegraph—Press Association.

PATRIOTIC FUND DRIVE LONDON GIFT INCLUDED

Wellington, Sept. 14. Mr. G. Hayden, secretary of the National Patriotic Board, explains that a proportion of the £100,000 for the relief of distress from air raids at London is to be found by the provincial patriotic councils. Concurrently with the Lntensification of the bombing of London, patriotic councils had completed arrangements for launching a Dominion campaign for funds for all patriotic purposes, including the rehabilitation of all branches of the armed forces, the provision of relief for them and their dependents and also comforts and other needs. An objective of £1,000,000 had been fixed and October 14 had been nominated as the starting date of this campaign. In view of the decision to make New Zealand's gesture to the London people an immediate one and to allow of allocations by the provincial patriotic councils to the sum being sent to London to be recouped, the provincial campaign virtually started to-day, he said. The public, therefore, in contributing to the provincial funds, would be giving to an outstanding objective among many worthy aims, because relief for London people was now automatically one of the responsibilities of the provincial funds.