PATRIOTIC APPEALS
CARE BY PUBLIC ADVISED. GIVING ONLY TO AUTHORISED COLLECTORS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board, Mr G. A. Hayden, stated yesterday that, unfortunately, circumstances had arisen which made it necessary to warn people giving to patriotic funds to be sure that the collector was an authorised person. The matter had been brought-under his notice in a letter from the secretary of the Taranaki Provincial Patriotic Council. "I have just had a case here,” he wrote, “of a man in soldier’s uniform making collections ostensibly for patriotic purposes. When handed over to the police they found lists on him that indicated that he had been working other parts of the country.” The letter added that in view of the appeal now being made by- the provincial councils to raise £1,000.000, it would be as well to issue a general warning to the public against giving to other than authorised collectors.
Mr Hayden explained that the official collectors had a printed numbered list or" an authorised collector’s card and receipt book.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1940, Page 4
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179PATRIOTIC APPEALS Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1940, Page 4
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