CANTERBURY PATRIOTIC FUND.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16205, 7 May 1918, Page 4

CANTERBURY PATRIOTIC FUND.

THE FINANCIAL POSITION. The third annual meeting of the Canterbury Patriotic Fund is to bo hold next week. According to the financial statement to be submitted to the executive, the total receipts to April 30th amounted to £192,037 9e 6d. General subscriptions zepreeent £178,057 4s 3d. special subscriptions for trench comforts £60 15s, interest £13,583 Os 3d, and loons refunded £336 10s. The expenditure to April 30th totalled £48,570 Is 3d. Of this total payments to soldiers and dependants and loans to soldiers represented £38fii2 16s 6d, extra comforts for soldiers convalescent in England and Egypt £2815 12s, Citizens' Defence Corpe on. account returned soldiers £1012 14s 4d, and grants to Salvation Army £250, to Canterbury Battalion Fund £1000, to Y.M.C.A. Trench Comforts £350, to Queen j Mary's Hospital £78 lie dd, and to N.Z. Bifle Brigade Battalion Fund £86 ISo Bd. Administration expenses and salaries totalled £2927 9s sd. Funds invested and in hand amount to £143,570 8s 3d. Keep with your clients as much as you can, That's the wise plan for a business man; Absence through illness for orders is bad, Patrons soon drift when you're missing, my lad, If in the winter with cold you take ill, Brace up your spirits and peg along still; At the first symptoms resolve to endure, Trusting to Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.