PATRIOTIC FUND BOARD

Southland Times, Issue 23948, 14 October 1939, Page 6

PATRIOTIC FUND BOARD

Sir Robert Anderson

Appointed MEMBERS OF COUNCIL ALSO ANNOUNCED (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, October 14. The personnel of the National Patriotic Fund Board and of the National Patriotic Council were announced tonight by the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. 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 the moneys and goods collected by patriotic effort. The general 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 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. “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 public generosity is not exploited, and that the public is not subjected to an almost constant barrage of collecting with no guarantee that the moneys generously and patriotically given are used to the best advantage.” MEMBERS OF BOARD Following are the members of the National Patriotic Fund Board:— The Governor-General (Lord Galway), the Hon. Mark Fagan, the Hon. J. G. Coates, the Hon. W. Perry, M.L.C, Sir Robert Anderson, and Messrs L. O. H. Tripp, J. J. Esson, T. A. Duncan, F. W. Schramm, M.P., Mr W. Mulholland, H. Tai Mitchell, J. Roberts, J. T. Paul, and B. C. Ashwin. The following are members of the National Patriotic Council: — Viscountess Galway, Mrs Janet Fraser (wife of the Hon. P. Fraser), Princess Te Puea Herangi, Sir Ernest Davis and Messrs T. C. A. Hislop, R. M. Macfarlane, A. H. Allen, D. W. Coleman, M.P., T. Jordan, the Hon. F. Waite, M.L.C., J. G. Barclay, M.P., J. Hargest, M.P., J. A. Lee, M.P., E. T. Tirikatane, M.P., S. C. J. Talbot, J. A. Cowles, B. J. Jacobs, R. H. Nimmo, W. Hustler Smith, Dr Alexander Gillies and Mr J. W. Heenan. Mr Jordan is to be chairman of the council.