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1946 N-EW ZEALAND

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly pursuant to Regulation 21 of the Patriotic Purposes Emergency. Regulations 1939

The Hon. Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington. The National Patriotic Fund Board has the honour to present its sixth annual report and balance-sheet, for the year ended 30th September, 1945. I. Introduction The expenditure of patriotic moneys by the Board and its agents during the year again constituted a record. Although the war with Germany was terminated in May, and that with Japan in August, a new expenditure was incurred in the preparation during the year for the extra comforts necessary for the troops in occupation, and also for the released prisoners of war, approximately 8,000. The annual gross cash expenditure of the Board, exclusive of expenditure by the Provincial Patriotic Councils, was as follows : £ 1939-40 .. .. • • - • - - 233,737 1940-41 .. .. .. .. -• 547,644 1941-42 .. .. •• •• •• 1,097,944 1942-43 .. .. .. •• 1,601,725 1943-44 .. .. .. •• •- 1,857,281 1944-45 1,868,962 £7,-207,293 Grose cash receipts, again exclusive of Provincial .Patriotic Funds, for the same period were £8,280,763.

NATIONAL PATRIOTIC FUND BOARD (REPORT OF) FOR* THE YEAR ENDED 30th SEPTEMBER, 1945