PATRIOTIC FUND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1943, Page 4

PATRIOTIC FUND

MASTERTON DISTRICT QUOTA WOMEN’S APPEAL SUM OF £l2BO STILL WANTED During the past week a further appeal has been made by the Masterton Women's Patriotic Committee and presidents of women’s organisations for funds towards this year’s patriotic quota of £10,374 for Masterton and district. Patriotic funds raised throughout the whole of New Zealand supply all the money year by year required by the Y.M.C.A., Red Cross, overseas parcels, etc. Last year, of the £BOO,OOO paid into the National Patriotic Fund Board, the main items of expenditure were briefly: Prisoners of war comforts, £171,000; sick and wounded comforts including grants to the joint council of the Order of St John and N.Z. Red Cross Society, £101,286; comforts for troops overseas and in New Zealand, including grants to the Y.M.C.A., Church Army, Salvation Army, Catholic War Services Fund Board, Navy League War Council, Air Force Relations and Overseas Seamen’s Gift Committees, £483,336. This money is controlled by a Patriotic Fund Board and not by the Government. It is recalled that General Freyberg acknowledged the assistance received from the fund when he spoke in Masterton recently.

A week’s contributions at the Queen Street Depot total £322 18s Id. This, with the money already in hand, leaves £l2BO still to be raised if the quota is to be completed. Masterton and district have never fallen down on that objective yet. Contributions may be left tomorrow at the Queen Street Depot or at the Town Clerk’s office before the end of this month. Additional donations are:—

J. Jameson £lO, Mrs Coradine £1 Is, W. Reside £l, Mrs Cleghorn 10s, Miss O’Hara Smith 10s, Miss “S” ss, Mrs Archer Hosking £2, Mrs E. R. Miller £2, Misses Ibbotsen 10s, Mrs J. Allen 10s, Miss Mary Smith ss, Misses Chapman £l, “Boojum” ss, Mrs V. Joseph £l, Miss S. Tankersley ss, Mrs N. Irwin ss, Miss G. Stuart £l, “A Friend” 10s, Mrs Dodds 10s, Mrs McCaul ss, M.M. and L.I. 10s, Mrs Butler ss, E. Staniforth £l, Mrs W. Butler 10s, Mr F. J. Miller £2, Miss O. lorns £l, Mrs Ashworth £1 Is, Mrs E. H. Morton £l, Mr W. Innes ss, A. B. McKenzie 6s, Mrs G. A. Robinson ss, Mrs Foster Percy ss, E. S. Beban 10s, N. McGregor ss, Geo. Hyde £l, Mrs Ackerman 10s, Mr Blennerhassett 10s, Mr Tozer £l, Mr Bert Page £5, Mr Bishop ss, Mrs W. Kummer ss, Mr S. Fletcher ss, sundry donations £2 Ils.

Mrs E. C. White £l5, Mrs S. R. Gawith £5, Mrs J. Perry £2, Mrs E. R. £l, Mrs N. H. Kummer ss, Miss Jean Sellar 10s, Miss N. Sellar ss, Mr F. G. Rutter £l, Bill and Mary Tolhurst £l, Mrs “T” 10s, Misses H. and B. Vallance £2 4s, Mrs Moser £l, Mrs W. Dalziell £2, Mrs A. C. Gawith £5, Mr S. J. Munn £l, A. Minogue ss, M. C. Finlayson £l, Mrs C. J. Knightfl, Mrs Hope Cross ss, Mr and Mrs W. J. Fly 10s, Mr Alan McKenzie 10s, Laurie McKenzie 10s, Mr and Mrs R. D. McKenzie 10s, Mrs Willoughby ss, K.B. 10s, Miss W. Daniell £l, “Jim” £l, Anon 10s, sundry donations £1 2s 7d; previously acknowledged, £9047 8s 6d; total to date, £9094 0s Id.