PATRIOTIC FUNDS
HOW THEY ARE SPENT Lieutenant J. W. Kealy, who since he returned to Egypt after the campaign in Greece has been acting as accountant on the staff of the Patriotic Fund Board’s commissioner, Colonel F. Waite, M.L.C., stated that there were still many men of the 2nd N.Z-E.F. who misunderstood the working of the fund. They did not realise that the Y.M.C.A., Church Army, and other organisations were expending agents for the fund. “The Y.M.C.A. may make a profit for goods sold in the camp at Maadi,” he stated, “but what is not realised is that they have to provide their own trucks and transport to supply men in the front line, and the cost of supplying men in Tripoli and Tunis was very high. “Apart from what is being spent by these expending bodies, the board itself spends about £70,000 a year in Egypt. An extra 1/6 a head for Christmas dinners may not sound much put in that way,” Lieutenant Kealy declared, “but when spent for each of the large body of men it means a big lump sum.” Lieutenant Kealy returned to the Dominion this week.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 67, Issue 5642, 16 July 1943, Page 3
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