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PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

WELLINGTON, June 6. The Minister for Internal Affairs made a statement in the House today regarding patriotic funds, showing that the funds received by patriotic societies throughout the Dominion, amounts disbursed, and the balance in hand at December 31, 1910. The table compiled by the department showed that the funds collected amounted to £1,492,954. There had been administered for relief, £11,327; equipment and goods purchased, £86,597: remitted overseas for special purposes, £381,675; expenses and refunds, £32,465; funds in hand Gn December 31, 1915, £980,890. The department, in addition, received large sums from private donors and other sources to add. to this. Other sums are known to be in hand, but had not been audited. The contributions cf the people of the Dominion for patriotic purposes will amount to, if not exceed, two million pounds.

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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 7 June 1916, Page 5

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PATRIOTIC FUNDS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 7 June 1916, Page 5

PATRIOTIC FUNDS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 7 June 1916, Page 5

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