PATRIOTIC FUND

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23751, 24 September 1942, Page 4

PATRIOTIC FUND

EXPENDITURE SINCE 1939 PROVINCIAL COUNCIL’S STATEMENT The amount spent by the Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Council from November 7, 1939, to June 30, 1942, out of the general account, was £148,641 6s 2d. This advice has been received by the Canterbury Manufacturers’Association in response to a request for details.

According to a statement before the association’s council meeting last evening. the amount spent was made up as follows:

To National Patriotic Fund Board for the Provincial Patriotic Council’s proportion of payments by the National Board for providing comforts for troops on troopships, overseas or in New Zealand; erection, furnishing, and maintenance of Salvation Army, Y.M.C.A., Church Army, and other recreational huts; provision of canteens; parcels for prisoners of war; comforts for sick and wounded; supply of comforts for crews of visiting escort vessels, and providing regimental funds, etc.— £62.574 12s 6d (with £104,000 approximately, owing for Provincial Patriotic Council’s share of expenses to September 30, 1942). Air raid relief in England—£2B,oos 11s 2d. Spitfire fund—£soo. Waste products expenses and imprest—£7B9 19s 3d. . Timarii Soldiers’ Club—£3B3 8s 7d. Blind Spldiers’ Fund, transfer to Commercial Travellers’ Fund —£105 2s lOd. Ashburton Welcome Club—£9s2 16s. Rangiora Soldiers’ Club —£50. Women’s War Service Club—£3B9 10s Bd. W.A.A.F.—£IOO 10s 4d. Christchurch Welcome Club—£7277 0s 3d. Comforts for soldiers (woollen knitted comforts, recreational equipment in camps and aerodromes, transport for concert parties, unaddressed parcels, etc.)—£39,370 7s 6d. Mercantile Marine Service comforts—£3Bl 10s sd. Grants to soldiers and dependants—£s3B4 7s Id. Printing, stationery, advertising, and office 'expenses—£1494 ss. Transfers to Red Cross—£9ol 4s 7d. The Patriotic Council’s statement added that in connexion with some of these activities, amounts had been received. For instance, £5817 14s 9d had been received through the Christchurch Welcome Club; £350 had been repaid of amounts advanced to soldiers or their dependants; £lO9l 17s 2d from soldiers’ (etc.) clubs; £1767 7s 8d from interest on investments." £l4Ol 4s 7d for Spitfire and Red Cross funds, together with £158.145 received from various appeals. The Patriotic Council had laid aside £55.152 10s 6d to provide for post-war relief for returning personnel of the services, and to date had spent £1554 19s 2d for this purpose.

It was not known, the statement added, what part of the 1914-18 funds was still intact. These were controlled by the Canterbury Patriotic Fund and were available only to men of the 1914-18 war. and formed no part of the Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Fund’s activities. Canteen funds were not. it was understood, available for assistance in the present war, though it was believed that the fund was still in a strong position.