Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 143

(including £86 12s. 2d. from Syria), and in the second year £14,428 10s. 2d. In addition, Head Office collected the sum of £1,025 12s. lOd. from the Society " Baith v'Gan," near Jaffa, representing a loan which the Keren Hageulah in Beyrout, Syria, had made to that company at the time. This amount is to be applied for the purposes of an immigrants' hostel in Tel-Aviv. Further, a sum of £450 was entered as the equivalent of the land, which the Vaad of Achusath Baith in Tiberias had donated for building a school and a Kindergarten. Thus a total of £21,007 has been received from Eretz Israel and Syria during the period covered by this report against £9,466 9s. lOd. in the previous report period. The joint fund-raising efforts on the part of the Keren Hayesod and Keren Kayemeth in Canada resulted in remittances totalling £12,145 16s. 4d., of which £5,299 12s. 4d. were received in the first and £6,846 4s. Od. in the second year covered by this report. Dr. Benzion Shein toured Australia, New Zealand and the Far East. The financial proceeds of this tour, after deduction of the expenses incurred distributed over the countries involved, amounted to £7,085 12s. 3d. (without taking into account the sums which Dr. Shein helped to raise for the settlement of German Jews in Palestine). The £7,085 12s. 3d. are made up as follows: From Australia (mostly from Sydney), £2,993 2s. 3d.; New Zealand (mostly from Auckland), £1,178 13s. 3d.; from Singapore £1,025 0s. 10d.; Dutch East Indies, £525 12s. Id.; from China (mostly from Shanghai), £758 0s. 3d.; the Philippine Islands, £148 18s. 6d; from Japan (Kobe), £87 18s. 4d., and from British India (Calcutta and Bombay), £368 6s. 9d. Arbil (Iraq) remitted £10. The £5,555 9s. 7d. received from South and Central America were made up as follows: Argentine, £4,302 12s. lOd; Brazil, £656 Is. 9d.; Chile, £576 15s. Od; and San Salvador, £20. North Africa furnished £4,181 2s. 3d., of which Egypt contributed £2,350 10s. lid., Algeria, £1,519 lis. lOd, and French Morocco (Casablanca), £310 19s. 6d. No campaigns took place in Spanish Morocco and Tunis during the period covered by this report. Special funds and earmarked donations yielded £88,291 0s. 8d., made up as follows : 143