PATRIOTIC FUND

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 October 1939, Page 5

PATRIOTIC FUND

NATIONAL BOARD APPOINTED. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. I AUCKLAND. October 13. The personnel of the National Patriotic Fund Board and of the Nationlal Patriotic Council were announced to-night by the Minister for Internal Affairs (Mr. Parry). The board, comprising 14 members, and the council consisting of 21 members, which were set up under the Patriotic Purposes Emergency Regulations gazetted on October 4, will have the responsibility of administering regulations governing moneys and goods collected by patriotic effort. The general function of the board is to administer a national fund in accordance with the provisions of the regulations, so that finance is expended to the best advantage. The council will fulfil an advisory function on all matters affecting the administration of the regulations, and has power to make such investigations and inquiries as it considers necessary or as the Minister directs. The Minister said that the representative standing of members of the board and of the council in the different sections of the community from which they were drawn would ensure the public of sound administration of tbe Dominion’s patriotic funds. The bodies set up would establish co-ordina-tion of objectives and efforts. “They will safeguard the public against there coming into being a myriad of collecting agencies, as happened in the Great War,” he said. “They will see that no large sums are lost to the funds, that the public generosity is not exploited, that the public is not subjected to an almost constant barrage of collecting with no guarantee that moneys generously and patriotically given are used to the best advantage.” The following are the members of the National Patriotic Fund Board: — The Governor-General (Lord Galway). Mr. Mark Fagan. Mr. J. G. Coates. 1 Mr. AV. Perry, M.L.C. Sir Robert Anderson. Mr. L. O. H. Tripp. Colonel ,1. J. Esson. Mr. T. A. Duncan. Mr. F. AV. Schramm, M.P. Mr. AV. Mulholland. Mr. H. Tai Mitchell. Mr. J. Roberts. Mr. J. T. Paul. Mr. B. C. Ashwin. The following are members of the National Patriotic Council: — Viscountess Galway. Mrs. Janet Fraser (wife of Mr. P. Fraser). Princess Te Puea Herangi. Sil’ Ernest Davis. Mr. T. C. A. Hislop. Mr. R. M. Macfarlane. M.P. Mr. A. H. Allen. Mr. D. AV. Coleman, M.P. Air. T. Jordan. The Hon. F. AAffiite, M.L.C. Mr. J. G. Barclay, ALP. Air. J. Hargest, M.P. Mr. J. A. Lee, M.P. Mr. E. T. Tirikatene, M.P. Mr. C. J. Talbot. Air. J. A. Cowles. Air. B. J. Jacobs. Air. R. H. Nimmo. Air. AV. Hustler Smith. Dr. Alexander Gillies. Mr. J. W. Heenan. Air. Jordan is to be chairman of the council. " '■