PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 123, 19 February 1944, Page 6

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Board’s Expenditure For Four Months The financial statement submitted to this week’s meeting of the standing committee of the National Patriotic Fund Board showed a total expenditure of £369,933 for the four months ended January 31. The total was made up with payments aggregating £266,477 from the general account and £103,456 in respect of sick and wounded and prisoners of war. Expenditure on the New. Zealand Forces overseas totalled £156,305. Of the board’s expending agents, the Y.M.C.A. was paid £lB,OOB, Salvation Army £5023, Church of England Military Affairs Committee £BOOO, Catholic War Services Fund Board £2OOO, and Air Force Relations £257. Expenditure on behalf of sick and wounded and prisoners of war included an imprest of £81,632 for the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and Red Cross Society. Administration expenses for the four months were £732. A return was presented showing the quantity and value of patriotic goods shipped by the board in the two months ended January 31 to the United Kingdom, /Middle East, India, the Pacific, and Canada. and also giving particulars of comforts placed on hoard ship for use by New Zealand personnel whil_e_ at sea. The total number pt cases was 7579, and the value of the goods was £40,337. In the four months since the beginning of last October 27,581 cases of comforts have bc ,, n shipped by the board. The goods shipped in the Inst two months covered a wide range. They included woollens, gift parcels, cigarettes, hospital supplies, ice cream plant parts, indoor games, buffet supplies, writing materials. sports gear, radio sets, cinema parts, ice cream ingredients, lamps, musical instruments, toffee, a sewing machine for a W.A.A.F. hostel, furnishings and equipment for clubs and rest centres, and block cake. The block cake was for R.N.Z.A.F. personnel in the Pacific. One ton six cwt. was sent, and it cost the board £123/11/4. Comforts sent to the New Zealand Division’s forward area in the Pacific cost £11,154, to the divisions’ base £S24B,_and tn the R.N.Z.A.F. personnel £5079. Smaller amounts were spent on troops in other parts of the Pacific. The comforts sent to New Zealand personnel in India comprised gift parcels and cigarettes.