National Patriotic Fund Balance Sheet

Northern Advocate, 19 December 1942, Page 2

National Patriotic Fund Balance Sheet

(P.A.) WELLINGTON. This Day. A financial statement showing that payments aggregating £180,461 were made ’ey the National Patriotic Fund Eoard for the two months ended Novenber 30, was submitted to the board this week.

It was made up of general account. £120,917; sick and wounded, £27,601: prisoners of war, £31,943. Payments out of general account included £6875 for comforts for the forces in the Middle East; £755 for comforts for troops in the Pacific, plus imprest £SOO for the benefit of the men in this area; £2147 for materials for an Jce cream plant in the Middle East; £25,100 for the Russian Red Cross; £1959 for comforts for the troops in New Zealand; £6217 for purchase oT stock to be issued in New Zealand and for troopships as reouired.

Expenditure on recreation institutes and huts totalled £11,777. To carry on their work as main expending agents of the board in New Zealand, the Y.M.C.A., Salvation Army, Church of England Military Affairs Committee and the Catholic War Services Board received a total of £44.000. For comforts for the troops in hospital, £2355 was paid out of the Sick and Wounded Account and out of the same account an imprest of £24,096 was made to the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society. Purchases for parcels from the Dominion for New Zealand prisoners of war was responsible for the expenditure of £29,675.

The board’s cash balance at the end of November totalled £31.703.