PATRIOTIC FUNDS
MORE THAN £1,000,000 SPENT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, November 20. Opening the national conference of patriotic bodies, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, Baid the National Patriotic Fund Board had already sent £220,000 to England and some £30,000 for the relief of distress in Allied countries and. would continue to send whatever might be required. Advice from London that further grants were not called for at present should ease the minds of those who might have felt New Zealand was not doing quite enough for the people of the United Kingdom. He said so far from attempting to control patriotic funds, the Government had materially helped them. Not all the funds raised had yet been spent, but more than £1,000,000 had been expended and the value of goods given, apart from goods purchased out of the funds, amounted in all probability to more than £500,000. Rehabilitation in its accepted sense of the reinstatement of men and women of the fighting services into civil life fell within the province of the Government pnd was a responsibility the Government could not, and did not, desire to pass on to patriotic organizations.'
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Southland Times, Issue 24598, 21 November 1941, Page 3
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193PATRIOTIC FUNDS Southland Times, Issue 24598, 21 November 1941, Page 3
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