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NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL PATRIOTIC FUND BOARD—continued Balance-sheet as at 30th September, 1943 Liabilities £ £ Assets £ £ Accumulated funds, Ist October, 1942 .. 905,888 Section at Gisborne .. .. .. .. 58 Add surplus from Income and Expenditure Papakura Hostel . „ .. .. j. i 293 Account for year .. .. .. 114,096 Convalescent homes and hospitals: Land, 1,019,984 buildings, furniture, and equipment .. .. 12,204 Transfer to Sick and Wounded Reserve .. .. 400,000 Recreational huts in camps in New Zealand 273,791 Less depreciation in reserve .. .. 184,819 Accumulated funds available for all purposes, 30th _ 88 972 September, 1943 .. .. .. .. 619,984 Recreational huts in Fiji .. .. .. 13,623 Sick and Wounded Reserve .. .. .. 400,000 Less depreciation in reserve .. .. 13,137 Special funds— 1 4gg B.M.A. War Service Fund .. .. .. 5,844 Furniture, fittings, and equipment in camps Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen's Associa- and hospitals in New Zealand .. 101,818 tion Fund for Blinded Ex-servicemen .. . . 1,668 Less depreciation in reserve . . .. 68,655 New Zealand Sheepowners' Acknowledgment of 1 33 103 Debt to British Seamen .. .. .. 7,888 Furniture, fittings, &c., Joint Council, &c. .. 1,499 Sundry creditors, New Zealand and overseas .. 104,565 Less depreciation in reserve .. .. 892 Credits allowed Provincial Patriotic Councils against 607 quotas for 1943-44 .. .. .. .. 61,349 Furniture and fittings, &c„ Allied Services Unexpended portion of Government prisoner-of-war Club .. .. .. 6,368 grant .. .. .. .. .. 16,578 Less depreciation in reserve .. .. 3,856 Insurance reserve .. .. .. .. 7,895 2 512 Furniture, fittings, and equipment— Office .. . . ~ .. ~ 443 Air Force Relations .. .. .. .. 157 Lady Galway Guild .. . . .. . . 15 War Library Service .. .. .. . . 50 Mechanical office appliances .. .. .. 276 Store .. .. .. ~ ~ 100 Postal Tobacco Section .. .. . . 106 Ice-cream plant, Middle East .. .. .. 3,586 Investments : Fixed deposits and Government stock— General Fund.. .. .. .. .. 32,139 Held against Sick and Wounded Reserve.. .. 300,013 Held in trust .. .. .. .. .. 286 Sundry debtors— Now Zealand and overseas .. .. .. 50,427 Provincial Patriotic Councils on account quotas .. 68,919 Accrued interest .. .. .. .. 2,361 Payments in advance .. .. .. .. 96 Undistributed stocks of comforts in hand and transit (New Zealand and overseas) .. .. .. 176,902 Undistributed stocks of comforts in hand: Sick and wounded and prisoners of war .. 67,600 Cash in hands of agents (unexpended advances, New Zealand and overseas) .. .. .. .. 120,962 Cash in bank, 30th September, 1943 .. .. 262,038 £1,225,771 £1,225,771

Contingent assets : Salvage of buildings, furnishings, radios, &c., supplied to clubs, and to Army, Navy, and Air Force units in New Zealand and overseas. Notes—(l) The rent of premises and salaries of staff of the National Patriotic Fund Board are met from the Public Account. (2) Prior to this year, the receipts of the Board have been shown principally under two headings: (a) General, and (6) Sick, Wounded, and Prisoners of War, as specific collections were made for the latter purpose. Since 1941, however, moneys have been provided for the Board by Provincial Patriotic Councils on a quota basis, and the funds, in the majority of eases, were raised from the public for all purposes approved under the Patriotic Purposes Emergency Regulations 1939. Including the Sick and Wounded Reserve, expenditure on sick, wounded, and prisoners of war (the items for which are shown separately in the Accounts), considerably exceeds any funds raised specifically for this purpose. G. A. Hayden, Secretary and Treasurer. I hereby certify that the Receipts and Payments Account, Income and Expenditure Account, and Balancesheet have been duly examined and compared with the relative books and documents submitted for audit and correctly state the position as disclosed thereby, subject to the report of the Audit Office to the Minister of Internal Affairs dated 17th November, 1944.—Cyril G. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General.

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