PATRIOTIC BOARD
Figures For Eight Months Payments bv the National Patriotic Funci Board for the first eight months of the Board’s current year totalled £816.054. Receipts during this period, which ended on May 31. amounted to £755,289. Cash balances at the end of Mav were £55,979 in the general account and £1149 in the imprest account. The payments comprised £568.837 for general purposes. £53.549 for sick and wounded, and £193,668 on behalf of prisoners of war. Expenditure from the general account on comforts for troops overseas included £4705 for men in England, £13,059 for Egypt, and £20,195 for the forces in the Pacific. In addition the following imprests for the purchase of comforts and amenities for New Zealanders were remitted overseas —-£50.000 to England. £61.390 to Egypt. * £3395 to the Pacific, £283 to Canada. £l9O to Ceylon, and £175 to Australia. Ingredients purchased for the manufacture of ice cream for the New Zealanders in the Middle East cost £2478. Contributions to the London distress fund and overseas organisations during the eight months totalled £39.352. The cost of comforts for troops in New Zealand was £8839. and the value of stock purchased for issue as reauired. including overseas, was £42,476. The sum of £1893 was spent on the war library service. Another big item was £24.288 for the provision of recreation huts, marquees, etc., in respect of which an additional £143 was spent for maintenance and repairs. Grants to agents of the Board in Now Zealand included £7OOO to the Catholic War Services Fund Board. £32,000 to the Church of England Military Affairs Committee. £29,000 to the Salvation Armv. and £lO5 000 to the Y.M.C.A. * The Board's administration expenses totalled £1133. 14. 9.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22620, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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282PATRIOTIC BOARD Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22620, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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