DRAW ON FUNDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23994, 18 June 1941, Page 8

DRAW ON FUNDS

PATRIOTIC BODY'S PROTEST NEEDS OF REPATRIATION (0.C.) OISBORXE, Tuesday Dissatisfaction at having to contribute £2200 as their quota of £IOO.OOO asked for by the National Patriotic Fund Board to be sent immediately to England for the relief of distress caused by enemy action was expressed at a meeting of the East Coast Provincial Patriotic Council. No fault was found with the cause, but it was felt by members that the contribution should have been made from the Red Cross and St. John fund.

"At present wo have sufficient funds to meet it, and stil! have £250 in hand," said the treasurer, Mr. M. .J. White. Colonel 1!. l'\ Gamhrill said he was disappointed that the joint council did not see fit to contribute now, as it meant that money would be used which otherwise would have been diverted to rehabilitation channels Already the council had had to find i.'.'i.'iOO, and now came 1 his request for a further £2200. The Joint Council of the Red Cross and St. John, he said, had taken the cream of the collections of the whole country in its appeal. "iiy the look of it we will be paying out rehabilitation money faster than it will be coming in." he added. 'The soldiers are going to suffer after the war as it is then, much more than now, that the money will be required. After the war the rehabilitation fund will have to do what the Government will not do."

It was decided to pay the £'2200, with a protest to the National Patriotic Fund Hoard urging the Red Cross and St. John organisation to reconsider its decision.