AMENITIES FOR TROOPS
BIG PATRIOTIC EXPENDITURE ■ ; ————_ j WELLINGTON, May 20. More than £500,000 was expended up to the end of the last financial year (September, 1943) by tho National (Patriotic Fund Board' and' provincial (patriotic councils, in assisting New Zealand's fighting forces.. Details are shown in a return taken out recently by the board. Besides Ibands that have been equipped and are ■now overseas with the New Zealand troops, many radios and pianos have •been supplied out of patriotic funds. The cost of providing baud instruments, radios, and pianos to the end of September last, was £27,857. Expenditure on recreational huts was £287.464. and the furniture for them £103.317. Wool supplied to voluntary .workers for knitting scarves, mittens, and other articles for service personnel, cost £165.111. These items alone, representing only a part Of the many-sided activities • of the patriotic organisation, total £583,749.
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Evening Star, Issue 25180, 20 May 1944, Page 4
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143AMENITIES FOR TROOPS Evening Star, Issue 25180, 20 May 1944, Page 4
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