PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 281, 26 November 1943, Page 4

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

MONEY-RAISING SCHEMES £10,000 ART UNION URGED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Various suggestions for raising patriotic funds were considered by the Dominion patriotic conference to-day after the proposals had been examined by a sub-committee. It was announced that the Lady Newair New Zealand gift book, containing contributions from leading New Zealand writers, was now in press and the proceeds would be devoted to patriotic funds. It was decided to refer to provincial councils for their consideration the special street system of raising funds used in Australia, particulars of which had been received from the New Zealand High Commissioner, Mr. C. Berendsen. It was announced that a special film production, "For Ever and a Day," would be screened throughout New Zealand, 35 per cent of the film hire being available for patriotic funds.

No action Avas taken in regard to a proposal for an additional tax of 5 per cent on totalisator investments. A recommendation by the sub-com-mittee that the Government be asked for the approval of a £10,000 patriotic art union was adopted. Other recommendations approved were that the Government be approached to grant each patriotic district an extra race day a year in aid of patriotic funds and that the Government be asked to reconsider its decision prohibiting the broadcasting of the names of donors and their sμbscriptions in radio-telephone or similar appeals. It was also recommended that a letter be forwarded to the picture industry by the Patriotic Fund Board, asking for its cooperation in a special patriotic effort for 1944. A high tribute to the efficiency tact and courtesy displayed by Mr. G. A. Hayden in discharging his important responsibilities as secretary and treasurer of the National Patriotic Fund Board was paid