PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Evening Star, Issue 25469, 27 April 1945, Page 6

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS YEAR HOW THE MONEY IS SPENT The amount required by the Otago Provincial Patriotic Council for all patriotic purposes up to September 30 of this year is £75,000. This sum includes Otago's percentage of the Oominion total of £573,400 required by the National Patriotic Fund Board, plus the Otago Provincial Patriotic Council's direct expenditure requirements of £24,139. The requirements .have been calculated as follows :

—Expenditure by National Patriotic Fund Board on General Patriotic Purposes.— On troops overseas—- £ United Kingdom 30,000 Middle East ... 75,000 Pacific 70,000 Canada 300 India 5.000 Australia 5,000 Sundry units 3,000 Reinforcements, 3,000

Naval units and overseas seamen ... ... 2,000 'Repatriated prisoners of war 50,000 Per expending agents— Air Force Relations 1,000 Catholic War Services ... 2,000 Church Army 3,000 Salvation Army 2.000 Y.M.C.A 15,000 N.Z. Lady Gal way Guild 100 Troops in New Zealand ... 30,000 Wool for knitting into comforts ... 7,500 Administration expenses ... 2.500 Expenses of appeals ... ... 4,000 Contingencies 100,000 (Relief of distress overseas ... 100,000 —Amount to be Paid Over to Joint Council of St. John and Red Cross.— For expenditure on sick and wounded— In hospitals overseas, in hospitals in New Zealand, in hospital ships, in convalescent denote 60.000 For prisoners of war purposes— Tobacco for nrisoners of war ... ... ... 50.000 Prisoner-of-war books, inquiry bureau, and sundries ... 20.000 fi40,400 Less estimated credits and realisations ... ... 67.000 Total requirement for expenditure by National Patriotic Fund (Board and Joint Council of St. John Ambulance Association and New Zealand Red Cross Society ...£573.400 —Otago's Proportion.—

Otago Province's proportion of total ... ... ... ... v 50,861 Otago Patriotic Council's estimated requirements for direct expenditure— Gift parcels (less sales tax refunds) 10,250 Wool and other items for comforts and incidental expenses ... 250 Services clubs, amenities, reception and hospitality to servicemen and merchant navy ... 2.500 Operational expenses, including zone imprest accounts and administration 1,500 Addition to Services and Dependents' 'Relief arid Post-war Welfare Fund 9.639 Amount required from Otago Province before September 30. 1945 £75,000 —Zone Quotas.— The collecion of the £75,000 required by the Otago Provinical Patriotic Council has been apportioned, in accordance with an agreed-to percentage. to the various zones and subzoues of the province as follows:

Metropolitan Zone ... 47.984 North Otago Zone .... 9,375 South Otago Zone ... 7,500

Tuapeka Zone ... 3.442 Vincent Zone 2.872 Maniototo Zone ... 1.920 Lake Zone ... 1.907

£75,000 - The Metropolitan Sub-zone allocations are as follows: : —Dunedin-St. Kilda £38,000, Taieri £3,530. Waiikouaiti £1,917, Palmerston £1,125, Port Chalmers £995, Green Island £917, West Harbour £750, Peninsula £750; total, £47,984.