ACTIVITIES CRITICISED
ROTORUA PATRIOTIC WORK (0.C.) ROTORUA. Tuesday
"It appears that there lias not been enough information given to the committee regarding its finances or several aspects of its affairs in the past," said the newly-appointed chairman of the Rotorua Inter-Zone Patriotic Committee, Mr. D. .Tervis. at a meeting of the committee. He said he understood that a number of sub-committees had never functioned, and in future lie intended to see that they did. Failing that, personnel of committees would have to be changed until five committees were actin fr . \ MrT W. G. Harwood reported that the last., and only, meeting to his knowledge, of-the rehabilitation committee had" been held last year. Since then one small branch of the committee had been functioning actively—that under which boys from the High School kept the gardens of soldiers' wives in order. A financial statement showed that the total sum raised by the whole /.one since the inception of the committees was £12,626, of which Rotorua had raised £4594. Matamata £5373, TirauOkoroire, £1402, Putaruru, £767, Ngongotaha, £325, and Taupo, £165.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23994, 18 June 1941, Page 9
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