CRIPPLED CHILDREN

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 59, Issue 4278, 12 May 1950, Page 6

CRIPPLED CHILDREN

TREASURER’S ACCOUNTS MEETING HELD IN PAEROA Some interesting features of the year’s operations of the Thames Hospital district sub-centre of the Auckland Crippled Children Society were disclosed in the accounts presented by the treasurer, Mr C. A. Blackwood, at the annual meeting of the sub-centre held in Paeroa. The street collections at £462/18/9 constituted a record, the amount collected in the previous year being £247/8/6. On the expenditure side the payments actually made on behalf of crippled children was £9l/8/3 as against £77/5/10 during the year 1949. The total payments of £9l/8/3 was made up of items such as the provision of boots, fees paid to specialists and the travelling expenses of children to enable them to attend clinics at Auckland, Thames and other centres.

That the expenses of the organisation had 'been kept to a minimum was well illustrated by the total expenses of £6/16/9 which amount included bank charges £2/18/9, collection expenses £2/18/- and petty expenses £l.