PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Waikato Times, Volume 193, Issue 22203, 24 November 1943, Page 2

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

QUOTAS FOR NEXT YEAR

NET TOTAL OF £663,500 REQUIRED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. To meet the expenditure in supplying comforts and amenities for New Zealand forces for the year ending September 30, 1944, the National Patriotic Fund Board estimates it will require £713,500, less unallocated and miscellaneous revenue of £50,000, leaving a net total of £663,500, which is £125,000 less than -he amount budgeted for last year.. The estimated requirements are being placed before the annual Dominion Patriotic Conference, which opens today. Quotas of the provinces respectively to meet the estimated expenditure are: Auckland, £210,827; East Coast, £17,256; Hawke’s Bay, £37,156; Taranaki, £29,625; Wellington, £145, 970; Marlborough, £9455; Nelson, £15,261; Westland, £9158; Canterbury, £101,748; Otago, £58,852; Southland, £29,194. Towards these amounts provinces are chown as having credits in hand, ranging from approximately £2OOO to over £20,000 in one case, and these sums will reduce correspondingly the amount required from these provinces.

The amounts budgeted for under the three main headings, with the net expenditure last year in parentheses are as follows: General Account, £567,000 (£491,461); Sick and Wounded, £114.000 (£92.469); Prisoners of War £IOB,OOO (£14,893); Sundry creditors are estimated at £50,000, so the total estimated expendi- j iture is £789,000. The net expenditure amounted last year to £684,823. Only *wo provinces failed to meet their quota. last year, Auckland by £1164 and Canterbury y £18,503. Details of Estimates This year’s budget makes provision for the following items: New Zealand personnel overseas, £231,750; expending agents (Y.M.C.A.. etc.,) £129,000; troops in New Zealand, £45,000; administration expenses, £2500; contingency fund, £100,000; assistance for relief of distress overseas, £50,000; sick and wounded, £102,250; prisoners of war, £53,000. No figures are included for prisoner of war parcels, states the explanatory note, as this money is not now raised by the provincial patriotic councils. It is merely a National Patriotic Fund Board adjustment with the Government. The amount expended last year for food parcels for prisoners of war was approximately

£280,000. Reference is also made to the fact that the board’s expenses-rent, freight salaries and telephones are borne by the Government from an Internal Affahs Department vote. GOVERNMENT’S GRATITUDE WORK OF PATRIOTIC BODIES (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday Opening the annual Dominion Patriotic Conference today, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, expressed the thanks of the Government for the untiring efforts of patriotic bodies on behalf of the New Zealand forces and its good wishes for the future. Magnificent and noteworthy work had been performed by the patriotic bodies, Mr Parry added. '

While the result of the war was not in doubt, the length of hostili- 1 ties was still in question, and in his opinion peace was still a fair distance off. Therefore he wanted the patriotic bodies carrying on as they had been doing, notwithstanding the difficulties and problems confronting them.