RUMOUR DENIED
EXPENDITURE OF PATRIOTIC FUNDS. NONE SPENT ON KARITANE BUILDING. The Town Clerk, Mr G. T. O’Hara Smith, stated this morning that he had received a letter from a Wairarapa resident asking him to contradict a persistent rumour “that Patriotic funds are being used for other purposes.” The writer asserted that she had heard on three occasoins a statement that “Karitane Hospital benefited from the funds to the tune of £6,000 for the purposes of renovations to the building in Featherston.” She said that statements of that kind were damaging to the efforts of patriotic committees, especially when made with all signs of authentic knowledge. Mr O’Hara Smith referred the matter to Mr Hayden, secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board, who advised that the Karitane buildings in Wellington were taken over by a Government Department and denied the rumour that patriotic funds had been expended on equipping the Karitane building at Featherston.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1943, Page 2
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154RUMOUR DENIED Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1943, Page 2
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