COMFORTS OVERSEAS.
PATRIOTIC FUND PARCELS. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 18. Returns submitted to a meeting of the National Patriotic Fund Board showed that during October and November 20,000 cases of comforts of a total, weight of more than 60S tons were shipped overseas to New Zealand forces in various war zones.
In the two months ended on November 30, payments from the board’s general account amounted to £95,221, and in respect of sick and wounded and prisoners of war £53,986, making a total of £149,207. Of the hoard’s expending agents, the Y.M.C.A. was paid £BOOO, the Salvation Army £SOOO, the Church of England Military Affairs Committee £4OOO, and Air Force Relations £142.
Expenditure in respect of side and Wounded and prisoners of war included an imprest of £33,952 for the Joint Council of the Order of St, John and the Red Cross Society. Expend!ture by the board on troops in New Zealand was approximately £2OOO.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 60, 20 December 1943, Page 2
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