PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 243, 14 October 1939, Page 8

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

ADMINISTRATION BY BOARD AND COUNCIL PERSONNEL ANNOUNCED [Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND. Oct. 13. The personnel of the National Patriotic Fund Board and of the National Patriotic Council were announced to-night by the Minister o< 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 nave the responsibility o£ administering regulations governing monies anc goods collected by patriotic effort. Tin general function of the board is to administer the national fund in accordance with the provisions of the regulations so that tne finance is expended to the best advantage. The council will fulfil an advisory lunction on all matters affecting administration of the regulations, and has power to make such Investigations and inquiries as it considers necessary or as tne Minister directs. The Minister said that the representative standing of members of the board and ol (he council in different sections of the community iron, which they were drawn would ensure the public of sound administration ci the Dominion's patriotic funds. The bodies set up would establish coordination of objectives and efforts. “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 no sums are lost to the funds, that tne public generosity is not exploited, that the public is not subjected to an almost constant barrage of collecting with no guarantee that the moneys generously and patriotically given arc used to the best advantage.” The following are the members of the National Patriotic Fund Board; ■ The Governor-General, the Hon. Mark Fagan, the Hon. J. G. Coates, the Hon. W. Perry, M.L.C., Sir Robert Andcison, Messrs. L. O. Tripp, J. J. Esson, 1 A. Duncan, F. W. Schramm, M.P., W. Mulholland, H. Tai Mitchell, J. Roberts, J. T. Paul and B. C. Ash win. 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 Davio, Messrs. T. C. A. Hislop, R. M. Macfarlane, A. H. Allen, D. W. Coleman, M.P., T. Jordan, the Hon. F Waite, ML.C., Messrs. J. G. Barclay, M.P.. J. Hargest, M.P., J. A. Lee, M.P., E. T. Tirikatene, M.P., S. C. J. Talbot, J. A. Cowles, B J. Jacobs. R. H. Nimmo, |W. Hustler Smith, Dr. Alexander Gi’.- | lies, and Mr. J. W. Heenan. Mr. Jordan is to be chairman of the council.