PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1943, Page 4

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

PROPOSED EXPENDITURE NEXT YEAR PLACED BEFORE DOMINION CONFERENCE. THE PROVINCIAL QUOTAS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) - WELLINGTON. This Day. To meet expenditure in supplying comforts and amenities tor the New Zealand Forces in the year ending on September 30, 1944, the National Patriotic Fund Board estimates that it will require £713,500, less unallocated miscellaneous revenue of £50,000, leaving a net total of £663.500, which is £125.000 less than the amount budgeted foi- last year. . z The estimated requirements are being placed before the Annual Dominion Patriotic Conference, opening today. The quotas of the provinces are: —Auckland, £210,827; East Coast, £16.256; Hawke’s Bay, £37,156; Taranaki, £29,625; Wellington. £145.970; Marlborough, £9.455; Nelson, £15,261; Westland, £9,156; Canterbury, £101,748; Otago, £58,852; Southland, £29,194. Towards these amounts, most of the provinces are shown as having credits in hand, ranging from approximately £2,000 to over £20.000 in one case, and these sums reduce correspondingly the amount required from these provinces. The amounts budgeted for under the three main headings, and the net expenditure last year (shown in parenthesis) follow:— General Account, £567,000 (£491,461). Sick and Wounded, £114,000 (£92,469). Prisoners of War, £lOB,OOO (£14,893). Amounts due to sundry creditors are estimated at £50,000, so that the total estimated expenditure is £789,000, and the net expenditure amounted last year to £684,823. Only two provinces failed to meet their quota, last year, Auckland by £1,164, and Canterbury by £18,503. This year’s budget makes provision for the following items: —New Zealand personnel overseas, £231,750; expending agents (Y.M.C.A., etc.), £129,000; troops in New Zealand, £45,000; administration expenses, £2,500; contingency fund, £100,000; assistance for relief of distress overseas, £50,000; sick, and wounded, £102,250; prisoners of war, £53,000. No figures are included for prisoner of war parcels, states an explanatory note ,as this money is not now raised by the provincial patriotic councils. It is merely a national Patriotic Fund Board adjustment with the Government. The amount expended last year for food parcels for prisoners of war was approximately £280,000. Reference is also made to the fact that the board’s expenses—rent, freight, salaries and telephones—are borne by the Government from the Internal Affairs Department vote.