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11. Summary of Receipts and Payments The following table shows the state of the Provincial and National Patriotic Funds as at Ist October, 1943, receipts and payments during the year, and the funds held as at 30th September, 1944 :

Auckland balance on hand, 30th September, 1944, £295,603, adjusted internaliy between Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Northland, and Waikato (new provincial patriotic districts). National Patriotic Fund Board £ Balance as at Ist October, 1943 : Cash and investments .. 604,181 Receipts from Provincial Councils and all other sources .. 1,267,976 1,872,157 Less payments .. .. .. .. .. "1,234,353 Balance, 30th September, 1944 : Cash and investments.. £637,804 111. Work by Expending Agents General.—The ramifications of the work of the expending agents of the Board have been fully explained in previous reports. The Board again wishes to express its gratitude for the outstanding services rendered by these agents in New Zealand and overseas, whose collective assistance has enabled the Dominion to provide a war-comforts service probably second to none in the theatres of war in which New Zealand servicemen were engaged. The work of the expending agents operating in camps in New Zealand only decreased in consequence of the demobilization of home-defence Forces. Advances to Commissioners and agents overseas amounted to £486,905 during the year; advances to the

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Receipts. Payments. Balance on Hand, 1st October, 1943. Received, 1943-44. Budget Payments to Board. Miscellaneous Payments. Balance on Hand, 30th September, 1944. Auckland East Coast Hawke's Bay Taranaki Wellington Marlborough Nelson Westland Canterbury Otago Southland £ 213,564 32,711 73,031 59,255 138,294 15,666 64,544 26,112 127,995 195,606 86,817 £ 359,641 31,129 71,460 54,416 244,230 16,818 31,152 14,891 202,404 133,964 56,347 £ 194,164 12,822 29,306 23,370 125,131 7,458 12,037 5,253 120,899 46,419 25,916 £ 83,438 8,744 17,268 10,955 72,193 6,817 9,801 3/555 98,700 30,380 17,573 £ 295,603 42,274 97,917 79,346 185,200 18,209 73,858 32,195 110,800 252,771 99,675 1,033,595 1,216,452 602,773 359,424 1,287,848 i