BUSINESS MANAGERS ANNUAL REPORT.

White Ribbon, Volume 49, Issue 4, 18 May 1943, Page 2

BUSINESS MANAGERS ANNUAL REPORT.

In presenting this report of the “White Ribbon” finances, the first thing I would like to mention is the great increase in the number of new subscribers —281 for the year from March Ist, 1942, to February 28th, 1943, compared with 144 for the previous year. Despite this, however, a great many subscribers have been written off, and our circulation is still down. We regret the passing away of many of our older subscribers, and hope that in the present year new names will replace theirs in our mailing list. Also over the past two years there has been a cleaning up of the lists of subscribers, and many whom we had lost contact with or whose subscriptions had lapsed have been written off. A good deal of effort has been made to contact those whose subscriptions were in arrears, and we can now say that the majority of the subscriptions are up to date. But we must use all our endeavours to keep up and increase the circulation of our paper. The subscriptions to the “Beacon” have dropped still further, only 300 copies being printed each month. This is no doubt due to some “Y”

branches ceasing to function owing to war causes. The number of Y.P. Supplements sent out each month has not yet reached the 4,000 mark, although it has gone up to 3,900 in the peak months. The number of new subscribers in the different districts are:— North Island.

South Island.

The Union with the largest number of new subscribers is Timaru, with 22

The Union with the largest number of subscribers to the “White Ribbon” is Riccarton, with 112. Therefore Timaru are the winners of the Banner and Riccarton of the White Ribbon Vase. Quite a number of Unions are supplying copies of the “White Ribbon” to Military Camps. North Canterbury Unions supply 22 copies to 15 Camps in their district; South Canterbury 15 copies to five camps; and Wellington District Unions three copies to one camp, in all 40 copies. This is a piece of work which the other districts could well take up. It is an opportunity to place our magazine before many who would never see it otherwise. Once again I would exrress publicly my appreciation of the help given by those who ivonth by month address the wrappers fur us; also to the principals and staff of Messrs. Wright & Carman, Ltd., for their kindly assistance. I would ask that we place on record our thanks to our Auditor, Mr. G. A. N. Freeman, for his freely given services. Ma> the influence of the “White Ribbon” be more widely spread during the year we have now entered upon. A. D. GRIGG.

North Auckland ... li Auckland .... 38 South Auckland .. 17 Taranaki .. 10 Hawke’s Bay .... 12 Wanganui 17 Manawatu 6 Wellington .... 23 134

Marlborough 3 Nelson 3 North Canterbury 46 South Canterbury 44 Otago — 40 Southland 1! 147