U.K. RELIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1941, Page 11

U.K. RELIEF

MONEY FROM N.Z.

PRESENT POSITION

In opening the national conference of patriotic bodies today, the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr. Parry) said that the National Patriotic Fund Board had already sent £220.000 to England and some £30,000 for relief of distress in allied countries, and would continue to send whatever might be required.

Mr. Parry announced the details of the distribution of the last remittance of £100.000 to Great Britain, and added that advice had been received from the office of the New Zealand High Commissioner in London that, subject to further consideration on the High Commissioner's return from the Middle East and in the absence of considerable air raids, it was considered that further grants from New Zealand were noi called for at present.

The advice received from London showed thai the" last £100.000 was allocated as follows:—To the Lord Mayor of London for National Air Raid Distress Fund, £50.000; for general war relief. £ 10,000; Queen Charlotte Maternity Hospital. £1000; Young Women's Christian Association, £2000; Boy Scouts' Association, £2000; Save-the-children Fund, £1000; Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund. £5000; Port of Hull Society. £500; Silver Thimble Fund.. £250; Hospital for Sick Children, £1000; John Groom Crippleage, £1000; Church Army, £1000; Hospital for Sick Children. London. £100; British Hospital for Mothers' and Children.- £150; Royal Waterloo Hospital. £200; Ayrshire War Relief Fund. £100; Home for Little Boys, Kent, £100.

Mr. Parry said the advice from London that further grants were not called for at present should ease the minds of those who might have felt that New Zealand was not doing quite enough for the people of the United Kingdom. The people of the Dominion could rest assured that whatever money was required for relief purposes in England would be supplied as and when actually required. " x