WESTLAND PATRIOTIC FUND

North Otago Times, Volume CIII, Issue 13654, 23 August 1916, Page 4

WESTLAND PATRIOTIC FUND

TRANSFER TO WAR FUNDS COUNCIL, (Per Press Association.) JTOKITIKA, August 21. Tlip executive of the Wcstlnml Patriotic. Fund, -iii l ting under the direction of a public meeting nf subscribers, is arranging to transfer its fund, amounting ferilll), tn tlio National i\Var Fluids Council for administration l»v Hint Imdy. iiocal control will tie retained hv a Ideal advisory committee, which, it Is ■ suggested, should he the present executive, In advise in relation to administration in terms of the original purpose I'or iviiic-li (lie money was Miami, This prnballly is t|ie flrst transfer of the kind, and appears to he an important step towards nationalisation of the war funds.