PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23714, 12 August 1942, Page 5

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

DRIVE FOR £500,000

(P-A.) WELLINGTON, August 11. Ihe second phase of the national dnve to raise the second £500,000 of the £1,000,000 required for patriotic purposes in the current year began to-day.

The amounts collected by the 11 provincial patriotic councils this year to 7 o clock last night follow, with the percentage of the quota the amount represents in each instance; Hawke’s Bay. £52.000 (77.5); Otago, £106,000 (70.6) West Coast, £9300 (66.4)- Nelson, £22,454 (62.4); Southland, £38,000 (62.2); Marlborough. £BOOO (53.3); Wellington. £97,277 (45.2); East Coast. £11.480 (43.9); Taranaki. £33,700 (33.7) Canterbury, £70,235 (28.1); Auckland, £130,000 (27.2). The main feature of the campaign is the sale o? comforts coupons. Purchasers may subscribe any amount they wish . for general purposes, or specific sums ranging from 2s 6d for 50 cigaretlcs to £SOO for a recreation hut.

The service it has been possible to give the New Zealand forces from patriotic funds subscribed by the people of the Dominion is eulogised by Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Frcyberg in a cablegram to the National Patriotic Fund Board received from him to-day. The (ext of the message is: ‘T would like the people of Now Zealand to know how much the National Patriotic Fund is appreciated at a time like this. The Y.M.C.A., the Church Army, and the Red Cross are doing great work distributing Patriotic Fund cigarettes, tobacco, writing materials, chocolate, parcels, etc. to the men in forward areas and to the wounded in the hospitals. May I on behalf of the N.Z.E.F. overseas, once again thank the people of New Zealand for their gift parcels and their generosity in subscribing to the patriotic funds?”