“THE WHITE RIBBON"

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 3, 1 April 1948, Page 5

“THE WHITE RIBBON"

Annual Report and Balano Sheet for the year ending December 31, 1947 Following on an increase in the cost of production, the subscription was, in April, 1947, raised to 3/6 per annum. The Unions responded very well to this increase in the subscriptions, but we did not receive sufficient, in subscriptions and donations, to completely cover the year's working costs, and had to draw' on the surplus from former years, to meet our payments. New Subscribers totalled 192, a decrease of nine on the previous year. We have written off 170. Of this number 37 have received the call to their Eternal Home, 17 have been written off as not paid up, four have left their addresses and are untraceable. and 112 have cancelled their subscription for various reasons. Of those written off as “unpaid” may I say that accounts have been sent to them for their subscriptions, several times, but no replies have been received. Of the new subscribers the numbers in the different districts are: South Island Marlborough 11 Nelson - 8 North Canterbury 39 South Canterbury 2 Otago .. 20 84 North Island North Auckland 7 Auckland 16 South Auckland 19 Taranaki - .... Hawke’s Bay 9 Wanganui 5 Manawatu 13 Wellington 34 108 The union with the largest number of new subscribers is Brooklyn, with 27 This union wins the Banner for 1947. The “White Ribbon” Vase has been won by Rirrarton, for 1947, with 138 subscribers. The Banner for Unions with under 20 members, having the largest increase in new subscribers, on a percentage basis, is Te Kuiti (European), with 37f per cent. gain. Beacons.—The number of “Beacons” sent out each month rose to 525. an increase of 142. This lias followed the work of our Organiser among the Maori people. Y.P. Supplements.—We now have 140 orders for monthly copies of our voung people’s paoer. The total issue for the year came to 73,025 copies, and all these were disposed of. This is an increase of copies over the previous year. This is a splendid effort towards giving Temperance Education our children, a work which should be undertaken bv every union. Once again 1 would like to thank the principals and staff of Messrs. Wright and Carman, Limited, for their helpfulness and co-operation in print -

ing and issuing our paper. Also to express our sympathy in the loss of Mr. R. A. Wright, their senior partner, who for so many years has been one of the supporters and upholders of the temperance cause in this country. To our auditor, Mr. G. A. N. Freeman, too, I would like to offer my gratefu l thanks for his kindness in checking and overseeing the bookkeeping. And I would like specially to ask you to express, by acclamation, your thanks to those ladies and gentlemen who each month undertake the work of addressing the wrappers for your papers, and so do for us an important part of the “W hite Ribbon” work. May our paper, through a much wider and larger circulation during this coming year, reach out still further towards those who as yet are ignorant of the ravages of the liquor traffic in this land. A. D. GRIGG. STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS Year ending December, 31. 1947 Expenditure

Receipts

BALANCE SHEET December 31, 1947 Liabilities

Audited and found correct. G. A. N. FREEMAN. February 2, 1948.

£ s. d. Printing and publishing .... 608 5 4 Stationery 31 Postages, telegrams, and 16 11 tolls _ 15 1 H Prizes, Y.P. Supplement competition 1 2 6 Convention expenses .... 11 Honorarium and Social 1 0 Secretary charges .... 26 17 6 Sundries 1 4 2 Dank charges 0 14 0 £6% 2 5*

Subscriptions and sales £ s. d. .... 571 14 0 Advertisements .... 61 19 4 White Ribbon Day Fund .... 39 5 9 Donations ... 1 4 1 £674 Excess Expenditure over income, year ending 3 6 December 31, 1947 .... 21 18 11* £6% 2 5*

k s. d. Accumulated Fund at 31/12/46 86 3 8 Less Excess Expenditure year ending 31/12/47 .... 21 18 m £64 4 8* AlMtl £ s. d. £ s. d. Cash in hand .... 3 0 7* Cash at Bank of New Zealand .... 26 14 1 29 14 8i Typewriter .. 10 0 0 Desk and Pigeonholes 9 10 0 Desk .... 15 0 0 64 4 8f