WAR RELIEF FUNDS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3152, 2 August 1917, Page 8

WAR RELIEF FUNDS

LIBERAL SUPPORT OF THE PUBLIC. The Financial Statement contained the following particulars regarding the Wan Kelief Funds:— . ■ • "During the past. financial year the public lias continued to subscribe very handsomely 'towards ■ tlio various relief funds, and has also made liberal' donations of comforts for our troops and for the civil'populations suffering from the effects of the war. The amounts contributed through tho Government by the people of the Dominion arc (shillings and pence omitted): Year Two years ended ended II arch, March, Belgian Relief Fund- 31,1917. 31,1917. Subscriptions subject to Government sub- ■ „„„.,,. aidy ■. 51,137 113,144 Special contributions • 6,514 U7,9>8 Other Belgian Funds 25,714 32,367 86,3015 293,460 Other Allies 10,176. 22,110 Great Britain and Ireland 1 >" !0 '• G3d Military Funds— . British Red Cross ... 0 ? ,77fl 85,681 British Navy relief ... 90,701 to.rft N.Z. hospital ships... — »>,]*\ N.Z. oom'torte 67 21G ,CT N.Z. war relief 6°- IVJJN.K. Convalescent . i, ome , 052 5,782 18,550 12,038 Voluntary contributions 338,803 679,001 Government contributions to the Belgian Relief Fund, including subsidy on . nninunt shown above » ™< Ui .0448,000 .£907,149 These figures <lo not represent the total contributions from tho Dominion to the objects named, as some contributions were forwarded through private channels. The approximate value of the gift goods forwarded from the Dominion for various purposes is as follows ended to 51 arch, March, SI, 1917. 31,1917. M £: Foor of Belgium 0,200 51J.200 i I "SS.° rUßltad 1.270 C7O Fed Cross'purposcs ... 15M05 » 41158,403 .C 295.335 ! Tn addition to the contributions in money and kind, it is;estimate that the total funds raised by the patriotic societies to March 31, 1917, amount to