PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23939, 14 October 1939, Page 12

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM BOARD AND COUNCIL PERSONNEL ANNOUNCED CPek United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Oct. 13. The personnel of the National Patriotic Fund Board and of the National Patriotic Council were announced tonight by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr W. E. Parry). The board, comprising 14 members, and the council, consisting of 21 members, which were set up under the Patriotic Purposes Emergency Regulations gazetted on October 4, will have the responsibility of administering the regulations governing moneys and goods collected by patriotic effort. The genera] function of the board is to administer the national fund in accordance with the provisions of the regulations, so that the finance is expended to the best advantage. The council will fulfil an advisory function on all matters affecting the administration of the regulations and has power to make such investigations and inquiries as it considers necessary or as the Minister directs. The Minister said that the representative standing of the members of the board and of the council in the different sections of the community from which they were drawn would ensure the public of sound administration of the Dominion's patriotic funds. The bodies set up would establish coordination of objectives and efforts. "They will safeguard the public against there coming into being a myriad of collecting agencies as happened in the Great War." he continued. "They will see that no large sums are lost to the funds, that public generosity is not exploited, and that the public is not subjected to an almost constant barrage of collecting with no guarantee that moneys generously and Datriotically given are used to the best advantage." The following are the members of the National Patriotic Fund Board:— The Governor-General (Viscount Galwav). Mr Mark Faean. M.L.C., Mr J. G. Coates. M.P., Mr W Perry, M.L.C.. Sir Ro?"ert Anderson, Messrs L. O. H. Tripp, J. J. Esson. T. A. Duncan, F W Schramm. M.P., W. Mulholland, H. Tai Mitchell, J. Roberts. J. T. Paul and B. C. Ashwin. 1 ie following are the members of the National Patriotic Council:—Viscountess Galway, Mrs Janet Fraser (wife of Mr P. Fraser. Acting Prime Minister), Princess Te Puea Herangi. Sir Ernest Davis. Messrs T. C. A. Hislop. R. M. Macfarlane, A. H. Allen, D. W Coleman, M.P., H. Jordan. F. Waite. M.L.C., J. G. Barclay, M.P. J. Hargest. M.P.. J A. Lee, M.P.. E. T. Tirikatene. M.P.. C J. Talbot. J. A. Cowles, B. J. Jacobs, R. H. Nimmo, W. H. Smith. Dr Alexander Gillies and Mr J. W. Heenan. Mr Jordan is to be chairman of the council. WAR STOPS SPORT LOSS TO NEW ZEALAND TEAM ONE MATCH COSTS £B,OOO (From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, Sept. 6. It is estimated that the abandonment of the New Zealand Rugby League tour will mean a loss of £BOOO. The team has played only one match. Mr John Wilson, Rugby League secretary, visited them at Harrowgate to help them. " I don't know when it will be possible for them to leave," he said. "1 am in touch with the steamship company and a travel agency to expedite the arrangements." The team's one match was won. They beat St, Helens by 19 points to 3. F- r the time being all forms of sport are at a standstill, but, if the 1914 precedent is followed, racing and football will eventually be resumed on a modified basis. There are now, on the other hand, more imperative reasons' against the gathering of crowds than in the last war. A certain number .of race meetings may be possible at Newmarket, where substitute races for the Derby, the Oaks and the St. Leger were run in 1915. 1916, 1917 and 1918. The Jockey Club and the National Hunt Committee are meeting later in the week, when plans for the continuance of racing on a restricted scale will, no doubt, be discussed. In the meanwhile, the majority of trainers intend to keep their horses in training. Some horses may be sold to Irish owners. Brood mares and fillies will be retained wherever possible. The position of professional footballers was explained by Mr W. C. Cuff, president of the Football League. Until the League Management Committee has considered the position, he said, clubs, should instruct their players to stand by. The Ryder Cup match between Great Britain and America, which was to have been played in Florida in November, has been cancelled. Among other important professional fixtures cancelled are the £1250 match-play championship fixed for next week at St. George's Hill, Weybridge, and the £SOO Dunlop-Metropolitan tournament, at Wentworth. The English Women's Championship and the county finale at Ganton, Yorks, which were to have been played from September 29 to October 6, will not take place. Shaw's Protest A protest against the closing of theatres and kinemas has been made by Mr Bernard Shaw. He calls it " a masterstroke of unimaginative stupidity." " During the last war," he adds. " we had 80,000 soldiers on leave to amuse everv night. There were not enough theatres for them, and theatre rents rose to fabulous figures. Are there to be no theatres foi them this time? We have hundreds of thousands of evacuated children to be kept out of mischief and traffic dangers. Are there to | be no pictures for them?" Mr Shaw joncludes: "All actors, variety artists, musicians, and entertainers of all sorts should be exempted from every form of service except their own all-important professional one."