USE OF PATRIOTIC FUNDS
A correspondent, Bessie Brown, has written protesting against the use of patriotic funds for other than patriotic purposes and draws' attention to an application made recently to the Wellington Metropolitan Patriotic Committee by the Citizens' Day Nursery for financial assistance towards the cost of extending its premises. The Hon. Vincent Ward, M.L.C., honorary secretary of the Wellington Metropolitan Patriotic Committee, to whom the letter was referred, said that the application, was based on the extra calls, arising out of the war, being made on the nursery, a letter in support of the application stating that of those who attended the nursery 50 per cent, were children of men serving overseas and 10 per cent, the children of returned soldiers. At the meeting of the Patriotic Committee at which the application w.as considered, said Mi\ Ward, doubt was expressed as to whether such a project, as this came within the scope, of the patriotic funds. In the meantime, irrespective of this aspect, the committee decided that funds available for patriotic purposes would not permit of any grant being made but that it would be willing to consider the matter at a later "
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 28, 1 August 1942, Page 4
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195USE OF PATRIOTIC FUNDS Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 28, 1 August 1942, Page 4
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