PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 60, 3 August 1944, Page 2

PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

A POINT CLEARED UP

Referring to recent amendments of the Patriotic Purposes Emergency Regulations governing the collection of funds by public appeal and canvass, the Minister for Internal Affairs (Hon. W. E. Parry) said that from some published statements there appeared to be misunderstandings of their real purport. Actually the new regulation authorised the Minister to prohibit any organisation (other than an authorised patriotic organisation) from appealing or canvassing for funds or goods, if, in the Minister’s opinion, the public was likely to be misled into thinking it was supporting a patriotic appeal authorised in the usual way by patriotic councils.

Application had not to be made to the Minister for a permit to make an appeal for funds or goods. The permission of a Patriotic ‘Council was required if such an appeal was to be made and the public informed that the appeal was for a patriotic purpose. When any other organisation made an appeal for its own purposes, neither ministerial approval nor approval under the patriotic regulations was necessary. For the protection of the public the Minister for Internal Affairs was given power to prohibit an appeal not authorised by a Patriotic Council. A prohibition could be made by public notice in the local newspaper of the district con corned or in the New Zealand Gazette.