SICK & WOUNDED FUND
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS. According to a statement presented to a conference of patriotic bodies in Wellington recently, covering the period from October 1. 1940, to May 31. 1941, donations received totalled £20,722 and those credited to the London Distress Fund £59.900. Payments included £12.875 for the sick and wounded, grants of £15.500 to the Order of St John and New Zealand Red Cross, £lOOO for the relief of distress in Malta. £12,500 to the Polish Relief Fund in England and £3126 to Red Cross organisations overseas. The balance in hand on May 31 was £39,382.
Assets were given at £60,000 bank deposits and £360,000 in Treasury bills, besides £12.800 provided for contingencies in Egypt and England.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410620.2.69
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1941, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
119SICK & WOUNDED FUND Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1941, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.