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11. Summary of Receipts and Payments The following table shows the state' of the Provincial and National Patriotic Funds as at Ist October, 1944, and, receipts and payments during the year, and the funds held as at 30th September, 1945 '

National Patriotic Fund Board Balance as at Ist October, 1944 £ Cash and investments .. .. .. .. 637,804 Cash in hands of agents .. .. .. .. 250,835- £ 888,639 Receipts from Provincial Patriotic Councils and all other sources .. .. .. .. .. .. .2,054,233 - 2,942,872 Less payments - ... .. .. .. 1,869,402 Balance, 30th-September, 1945 : Cash and investments .. £1,073,470 Tin Work by Expending Agents General The expending, agents of the Board continued their good work in staffing patriotic recreation huts and caring for the leisure-time of servicemen in camps and stations in New Zealand. The Board provided all moneys spent on this work in camps in New Zealand and overseas by the following expending agents : The .Catholic War Services Fund Board The Church of England Military Affairs Committee combatant The Salvation Army f troops. The y.m.c:a: and — The Joint Council of .the Order of St. John and New\For sick, wounded, and Zealand Red Cross Society J prisoners of war.

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Receipts. Payments. Provincial Patriotic Councils. Balance on Hand, 1st October, 1944. Received, 1944-45. Budget Payments to Board. Miscellaneous Payments. Balance on Hand, 30th September, 1945. Northland* Auckland Waikato* ... Bayj of Plenty*- ' .. ..; E'&st,.G.oast. .v» Hawke's Bay Taranaki Wellington Marlborough .. Nelson Westland Canterbury Otago Southland .. £ 295|603 » i I '* ' '« ; ,„42.i>74 97,917 79,346 185,200 18,209 73,858 32,195 110,800 252,771 '■ 99,675 £ 75,507 157,622 108,407 37,950 30,648. 67,600 .41,872 218,465 14,398 26,853 12,028 168,942 78,006 61,219 £ 20,929 110,185 49,733 -15,941 14,.048 32,110 25,599 126,148 7,358 13,188 9,975 97,500 50,860 25,230 £ 7,969 140,724 7,990 3,476 7,397 10,095 9,110 47,176 5,841 6,708 2,479 40,602 16,640 14,499 £ 46,609 202,316 50,684 - 18,533 . 51,477 123,312 86,509 230,341 19,408 80,815 31,769 141,640 263,277 1-21,165 1,287,848 1,099,517 598,804 320,706 1,467,855 * Sew provinces constituted during the year.