SPENDING BY UNRRA

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21933, 30 January 1946, Page 7

SPENDING BY UNRRA

PURCHASES IN DOMINION ADMINISTRATION £16,000 (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 29. How New Zealand’s second contribution to UNRRA will be spent was explained by UNRRA’s New Zealand office to-day. This contribution will be expended on the same general principles as the first. Ninetv per cent of it, or just under £2,500*000, will be provided in the form of New Zealand goods of types suitable for relief work and in quantities that can be spared from New Zealand s requirements. . Ten per cent of the contribution is made available to UNRRA in the form of free foreign exchange should the administration so request. This means that only to the amount of £200,000 does any undertaking to provide actual money arise. Should the administration not require this money for the purchase of relief pimplies elsewhere it, too, is added to \he 90 per cent non-convertable contribution and is then'provided in the form of New Zealand purchases. UNRRA’s New Zealand office added that UNRRA’s own administrative expenses came in a different form from relief contributions and New Zealand’s share of the administrative contribution had been about £16,000 in New Zealand currency. .