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FOOD PARCELS

FOR PRISONERS OF WAR

COST NOW TO BE MET BY GOVERNMENT CABINET APPROVES GRANT. OTHER ITEMS STILL A CHARGE ON PATRIOTIC FUNDS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The War Cabinet has approved of a grant of £340,500 being made to the National Patriotic Fund Board in the current year—£337,000 to be applied to meeting the estimated cost of supplying food parcels to New Zealand prisoners of war and £3,500 to censoring next of kin parcels. Half the amount is to be paid immediately and the balance as and when required. The grant is to the national all purposes appeal and not for aiding the funds provincial councils raise and administer locally to meet the requirements of their particular districts, but it will assist each of them materially, inasmuch as the total amount they will now be called upon to find in the current year for the National Board is reduced from £1,129,500 to £789,000. The Cabinet’s action follows on a decision made by a national conference of patriotic bodies held in Wellington in November, when a resolution was passed disagreeing with the principle of finding the money for the all-pur-poses patriotic appeal by taxation and it was recommended that the Government be asked to pay to the patriotic funds the amount required for prisoners of war food parcels, recreation huts in camps and such other matters as might be decided upon. Announcing the grant, Mr Hayden, secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board, said there would still have to be found out of the funds this year £38,000 to supply 200 cigarettes monthly to each prisoner, £2,500 for technical books, £10,250 to maintain the Prisoner of War Inquiry Offices in Ne\y. Zealand and to supplement next of kin parcels, £lB,OOO for parcels sent from the United Kingdom as soon as a man was notified a prisoner, and £40,000 for work carried out last year on New Zealand’s behalf by the Canadian Red Cross. These items made a total of £108,750.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1943, Page 2

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FOOD PARCELS Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1943, Page 2

FOOD PARCELS Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1943, Page 2

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