PATRIOTIC FUNDS
CANTERBURY DILEMMA NATIONAL DEMAND (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. “We are almost in the position of not being able to meet our obliga- ■; tions,” said Mr. W. S. Mac Gibbon, at a meeting of the Canterbury provincial patriotic committee last night. The National Patriotic Funds Board : set Canterbury’s quota for 1941-42 at j £71,462 and asked for one-quarter of i this amount, £IB.OOO, immediately. Yet : all that Canterbury had in its general fund was £19,000 out of whifch the expenses of its current activities had ■ to be met.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20624, 27 November 1941, Page 8
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