RAISING OF FUNDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 5, 5 July 1940, Page 9

RAISING OF FUNDS

PATRIOTIC PURPOSES

FUNCTIONS MUST BE APPROVED

Attention is crawn by the Department of Internal Affairs (Patriotic Purposes Branch) to the provisions of the Patriotic Purposes Emergency Regulations. 1939. in so far as the collection of funds for patriotic purposes is concerned. The Department advises that it has come under its notice that a number of functions have been organised throughout the Dominion for the col-.' lectio of funds for patriotic purposes and that, in many instances, the advertisements for them do not disclose by whom they are being sponsored, or whether they have been approved by the appropriate patriotic authority. In this regard, the Department points ■ out that it is an offence under the regulations for any person to raise money or to take up collections iii money or goods for any patriotic purpose unless such purpose is an approved purpose and such person is an authorised collector. Provincial Patriotic Councils, established in accordance with the regula-: tions, have been vested with the sole power to appoint authorised collectors, | but they may delegate such power to j the chairman of the council, or with respect to any subdivision o. the provincial district, to the controlling com-... mittee of such subdivision which may delegate such power to the chairman of such committee or to the Mayor or chairman of any local authority in respect of any part of the district of such local authority forming part of such subdivision. It is, therefore, incumbent on any person or organisation, wishing to organise entertainments, dances, or other fu ictions in aid of patriotic funds, to make application to me appropriate authority for the necessary approval. ■■• Such permission is required only wnere > the entertainment, dance, or other function is represented, by advertise-" ment or otherwise, as being held with the object of raising funds for patriotic purposes. The Department appreciates to the full the patriotic motives which have actuated citizens and organisations throughout the Dominion in organising functions in aid of the patriotic funds, and solicits the continuance of their valuable assistance and co-opera-tion in seeing that the regulations, which are designed to ensure that funds raised for patriotic purposes shall be properly accounted for, are duly complied with. .. .