PATRIOTIC FUNDS
CANTERBURY’S DIFFICULTIES , (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. M. “We are almost in the position xh not being able to meet our obligt* tions,” said Mr W. S. Mac Gibbon at t meeting of the Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Committee to-night. The National Patriotic Funds had set Canterbury’s quota for 1941-41 at £71,462, and asked for one-quarter of this amount, £IB,OOO, immediately. Mr Mac Gibbon said. Yet all that Canterbury had in its General Fund was £19,000, out of which the expenses of its current activities had to be met.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24775, 27 November 1941, Page 6
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