PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 301, 19 November 1942, Page 5

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

BUDGET FOR THE YEAR

WELLINGTON, Nov. IS. A budget providing for a total estimated expenditure of £1,129,500 to meet the requirements of the National Patriotic Fund Board for the year ending September 30 next was submitted to the annual conference to-day of patriotic bodies. This is £127,'000 greater than the total amount budgeted for last year. Sonic idea of the need for increased expenditure, said the secretarytreasurer of the board fMr G. A. Hayden) could be gauged from tlm fact that at the last conference only 80,000 men were under arms, both overseas arid in New Zealand. Iho number bad increased to 140.000 in April 1942, and was now in the vicinity of 160,000. A summary of the estimates for 1942-43, with the actual amount expended hist year in parentheses, is as follows: General account, £567,000 (£555,230): sick and wounded account, £114,000 (£97,961); prisoners of war, £445,500 (£231,398). Included in the general budget last year was an estimate of £150,000 lor relief of distress overseas. Of this amount, only £30,719 was spent (£25.000 to Russia, £2501 to the Polish Legation, and £2500 to Malta). At the last conferepce, said Mr Harden, the hoard had 49 recreation institutes in New Zealand; to-day there were 248.