WAR EFFORTS
SALVATION" ARMY WORK.
The annual statement of accounts issued, by the Salvation. Army National Headquarters gives an excellent. idea of the war-work which- the .Army has in hand in New' Zealand, and on behalf of New Zealand soldiers 'elsewhere. In connection with the appeal for work in. military camps the* sum of £5830 17s 9d was raised last year. The maintenance of the Trentham Institute accounted for £849 15s 6d; that for Featherston £1040 Us, and Tauherenikau^ £480 6s 7d. The Expeditionary Force, expenses were £838 8s Sd, and expenditure in other directions was considerable. The credit, balance at the Bank is - shown a-t £376 12s. Donations and contributions to the Belgian and Servian Relief Appeal were £5395 Is Id, which amount was remitted to General W. Bramwell Booth for distribution. The sum of £5842 5s lid was added to the Comforts for Sick and Wounded New Zealand' Soldiers Fund, and under that heading the chief items of expenditure were: granted to sick and wounded New Zealand soldiers
—In London £922 16s Bd, in France £782 19s 10* in Malta £72 14s lid, in ■Capetown £50, in New Zealand' £665 17s 8d; erection of hutment at Salisbury Plain, England, £1000; erection of hutment at Codford Camp, England, £400; expenses of Rotorua Institute, £563 19s Bd. The balance at.the bank stands at £1495 6s.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 23, 26 January 1918, Page 6
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225WAR EFFORTS Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 23, 26 January 1918, Page 6
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