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NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL PATRIOTIC FUND BOARD— continued Income and Expenditure Account, Ist October, 1943, to 30th September, 1944 Expenditure £ Income £ Comforts supplied— Donations .. .. .. .. .. .. 27,688 Troops overseas (less buffet and other receipts) .. .. 318,748 Donations payable to Provincial Patriotic Councils Reinforcements .. .. .. .. .. 4,950 (including profits and Government remission of Overseas seamen, Merchant Navy, &c. .. .. .. 3,593 taxes on patriotic race meetings, and proceeds £ Repatriated prisoners of war .. .. .. .. 2,107 from art-unions) .. .. .. .. 127,184 Troops in New Zealand (including maintenance of huts) .. 26,170 National Council for Reclamation of Waste .. 11,617 Musical instruments, &c. .. ... .. .. 7,127 138,801 War Library Service ... .. .. .. .. 1,304 Budget quotas from Provincial Patriotic Councils .. .. 663, 500 Wool .. .. .. .. .. .. 16,604 Interest on investments .. .. .. .. 9,390 Allied Services Club (less buffet receipts) .. .. 4,306 Customs duty and sales tax recoveries .. .. .. 18,242 Grants— Prisoners of war food parcels and packing expenses: Grant Patriotic organizations in New Zealand .. .. .. 788 from New Zealand Government .. .. .. 196,842 Patriotic organizations overseas (for relief of distress, &c.).. 34,483 Freight and cartage : New Zealand Government grant .. 57,613 Expenditure by New Zealand agents— Postal tobacco service: Sales (less purchases and expenses) 4,699 Air Force Relations .. .. .. .. .. 1,070 Postal chocolate service : Sales (less purchases and expenses) 687 Lady Galway Guild .. .. .. .. .. 23 Purchase of knitted garments by Air Department .. .. 7,715 Navy League .. .. .. .. .. 558 Assets previously written off, now realized .. .. 38,186 Catholic War Services (less buffet receipts) .. .. 2,562 Return of goods from camps in New Zealand and Pacific .. 9,731 Church of England Military Affairs Committee (less buffet New Zealand Government refunds: Salaries of welfare receipts) .. .. .. .. .. .. 4,949 workers in New Zealand to 30th September, 1943 .. 11,160 Salvation Army (less buffet receipts).. .. 3,847 Miscellaneous receipts and recoveries .. .. .. 3,736 Y.M.C.A. (less buffet receipts) .. .. .. .. 31,699 Expenditure, New Zealand and overseas, on sick and wounded and prisoners of war, including £291,591 ss. 7d. expended by Joint Council— Prisoners of war, ex New Zealand Government grant— £ Purchase of food parcels (less recoveries) .. 189,279 Rent and store expenses .. .. .. 7,563 196, .842 [

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