PATRIOTIC FUND

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23847, 16 January 1943, Page 4

PATRIOTIC FUND

♦ FIRST TWO MONTHS OF FINANCIAL YEAR

PAYMENTS £60,000 MORE

THAN RECEIPTS

Payments by the National Patriotic Fund Board for the first two months of its financial year, from October 1 to November 30. amounted to £180.462, and in the same period receipts amounted to £119,272. The amount spent on general purposes was £120,913 (receipts £94.680), from the sick and wounded account £27,681 (£14,755), and from the prisoners of war account £31,943 (£9837). The main item in the prisoners of war account was expenditure on parcels, and most of the payments from the sick and wounded account were for the St. John and Rod Cross imprest. The principal items of expend! • ture under the general heading were: Comforts for troops in Middle East, £6876; comforts for overseas seamen. £2526; London Distress Fund and overseas organisations, £25.100; comforts for troops in New Zealand. £8698; imprests in New Zealand, £44.000 (Church of England £BOOO, Salvation Army £7OOO. Y.M.C.A. £29.000); marquee's erected by board. £11.778. The statement for two months shows that in the general fund £34.080 was received from provincial councils in reduction of the £81,351 outstanding on September 30. In addition £IO.OOO was received from provincial councils towards this year’s quota total of £567,000. A grant of £30,000 was received from the Government towards the cost of huts. In the sick and wounded account £14.200 was received from provincial councils of the £63,724 owing on September 30. In the prisoners of war account provincial councils paid in £3OOO of the £39,434 owing on September 30.