PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 186, 7 August 1940, Page 3

PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

NATIONAL BOARD. POLICY FOR THE FUTURE. QUESTION OF APPEALS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.! WELLINGTON, this day. The future policy to he followed by the National Patriotic Fund Board and Provincial Patriotic Councils regarding appeals for funds was outlined by Mr. Hayden, secretary of the National Board. He said that unless extraordinary circumstances arose the board would nol be undertaking further national appeals. Provincial councils would be making appeals direct for entertainment of troops and other requirements in their districts, and for the establishment of funds for the care of dependents and the rehabilitation of men on their return to civil life. From the moneys the councils raised they would also contribute to the National Patriotic Fund. All that was being done was to change the method of collection of funds in conformity with decisions reached at the conference in Wellington. The national fund would still operate and in addition to continuing to provide the service it hitherto had done for men in New Zealand and men who went overseas it was now called upon to provide social and recreation 'amenities for men in camp under the intensified home defence training programme. By supporting the provincial appeals the public would be contributing to local requirements and' also to the national fund.