PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1942, Page 2

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

EXPENDITURE BY NATIONAL BOARD UPWARDS OF £lBO,OOO IN TWO MONTHS. SUM OF £25,000 TO RUSSIAN RED CROSS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A financial statement, showing that payments aggregating £180,461 were made by the National Patriotic Fund Board, for the two months ended November 30, was submitted to the board this week. It was made up of:—General account, £120,917; sick and wounded, £27,601; prisoners of war, £31,943. Payments, out of the General Account included £6,875 for comforts for the forces in the Middle East, £755 for comforts for troops in the Pacific, plus an imprest of £5OO for the benefit of the men in this area; £2,147 for materials for an ice cream plant in the Middle East, £25,100 for the Russian Red Cross, £1,959 for comforts for troops in New Zealand, £6,217 for the purchase of stock to be issued in New Zealand and for troopships, as required. < Expenditure on recreation institutes and huts totalled £11,777. To carry on their work, as the main expending agents of the board in New Zealand, the Y.M.C.A.. Salvation Army, Church of England Military Affairs Committee and Catholic War Services Board received a total of £44,000. For comforts for troops in hospital £2,355 was paid out of the sick and wounded account and out of the same account an imprest of £24,096 was made to the Joint Council of the Order of St John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society. Purchases fqr parcels from the Dominion lor New Zealand prisoners of war involved an expenditure of £29,675. The board's cash balance at the end of November totalled £31,703.