PATRIOTIC FUND PAYMENTS

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27075, 25 June 1953, Page 10

PATRIOTIC FUND PAYMENTS

Report To Canterbury Council £7564 DISBURSED IN EIGHT MONTHS Expenditure amounting to £7564 during the eight months ended May 31 was shown in the financial statement presented at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Council yesterday afternoon. The council’s credit balance was reduced during this period from £128.306 to £126,974. Further refunds from the New Zealand Patriotic Fund Board are awaited, and are expected to reduce the deficiency by September 30. the end of the council’s financial year. Mr W. S. Mac Gibbon, who presided, said that a legacy of £1725 from the estate of Elizabeth Barnett was a nonrecurring receipt. The council’s payments, including those made by its country committees, were detailed as follows:—aid to servicemen from 1939-45 war, £2968; aid to 1914-18 men, £2403 18s sd; aid to K Force men, £44; hospital comforts, £1027; general expenses, £lll9. Refunds from the Patriotic Fund Board during the period amounted to £2430. New Rannerdale Home The plans for the new Rannerdale Home had been altered considerably, Mr Mac Gibbon reported. However, the committee in charge of the home had stated that it could not carry on with the home unless it was rebuilt, and the rebuilding would definitely be undertaken, he said. Tenders for a 60-bed home on the site at Riccarton would be called about the middle or end of August, when the specifications would be ready, Mr Mac Gibbon said. The home would be a monument to the Returned Services’ Association, and would give a great deal of comfort to its inmates. The old building would be kept as comfortable as possible until the move to the new site could be made. There were now 22 or 23 men at the home. A tribute to Mr Mac Gibbon for the work he had done for the home was paid by Mr B. Barrett, welfare officer of the Christchurch Returned Services’ Association, who is the association’s representative on the council.