TO RELIEVE DISTRESS.
PROFITS FROM ART UNIONS, 5* A POLICY OF THE MINISTER. (Per Press Association). ROTORUA, This Day. “J have decided that while conditions remain as at present and people are suffering, any profits from art unions must go toward alleviating the distress of those poverty-stricken people,” announced the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) in reply to a request by settlers of Ngakuru for a g/ant from tho proceeds of an art union to assist in the erection of a hall in the district. Mr Parry said that until the Government could introduce legislation which would 1 improve conditions throughout the Dominion those in distress must he assisted, and that would be done by the allocation of profits from art unions for that purpose.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 100, 8 February 1936, Page 6
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129TO RELIEVE DISTRESS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 100, 8 February 1936, Page 6
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