PATRIOTIC FUND

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21504, 17 November 1939, Page 6

PATRIOTIC FUND

OBJECT OF REGULATIONS By Telegraph Press Association WELLINGTON, November 16. “I am afraid that a lot of the criticism levelled against the regulations has been made under a misunderstanding The object of the regulations is to prevent waste and overlapping,” said Mr R. H. Nimmo (Wellington) speaking of patriotic funds at the annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand to-day. Mr Nimmo moved: “That this conference urges all Chambers of Commerce and all members wholeheartedly to support the National Patriotic Fund Board and the various provincial patriotic councils in their effort to raise funds for approved patriotic purposes during the conduct of the present war to the end that members of all the armed forces shall not lack anything conducting to their welfare and comfort, and urges all members when the occasion arises to subsciibe generously to patriotic funds for the relief of wounded and disabled members of the forces and the dependents of those men who make the supreme sacrifice.” Mr Nimmo said it would be a wonderful gesture for the Associated Chambers to give a lead to the community. In reply to a question he said the administration of the funds was almost entirely in the hands of the Board. The motion was seconded by Mr A Ely (Auckland) and carried. Mr Ely said the arrangement made by the Government was decidedly for the well-being of the community as a whole.