CHRISTMAS BOX.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 296, 14 December 1936, Page 12

CHRISTMAS BOX.

RELIEF OF DISTRESS.

PROFITS FROM ART UNIONS

£11.200 TO BE DISTRIBUTED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sunday. Tlie sum of £11,200 from profits of art unions this year is to be allocated as a Christmas box to Mayors' funds for the relief of distress, to health camps for children and to numerous charitable, philanthropic and kindred institutions in various parts of New Zealand. The Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. K. i'arry, explained yesterday that this allocation had. been made possible by the Government's decision to amalgamate £3000 from the profits of tlie latest alluvial gold art union (No. 55) with undistributed amounts kept in hand from previous art unions. The total amount to be distributed in that way would be £11,200. The allocations to the Auckland district and tlie larger allocations to other districts are as follows:— Relief of distress through Mayors and other central relief committees, £5000. Children's Health Camps. —Auckland Community Sunshine Association, £400; Waikato camp, £100; Wanganui camp, £100; Wellington camp, £400; Christchurcli Sunlight League, £100; South Canterbury camp, £50; Dunedin (Waikouaiti camp), £150; Southland camp, £100; Thames camp, £50; Gisborne camp, £100. St. Vincent de Paul Society Superior Council. £300. Auckland Hospital Auxiliary, £100. Wellington Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Hostel, £250; Wellington Centre, New Zealand Red Cross, hospital auxiliary work, £100. Auckland Ladies' Benevolent Society, '£100; Auckland City Mission's "Whi'tneydale" Convalescent Home, £150; Open Door Mission, Auckland, £100. Free Milk for Children. Smith Family, free issue of milk to school children, £500. Homes pf Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream, £;!00. Metropolitan City Relief Committee, Auckland, £150; Auckland Institute for the care of backward children, £100; Auckland watersiders and seamen's hospital comforts funds, £50. For special relief not otherwise provided for, Thames (through Mayor's fund), £75; Gisborm, (through Mayor's fund), £75. The Minister remarked on the still growing number of applications he received from many different organisations for assistance by way of grant's from art union funds. "I think the list given of organisations to receive help." lie said, "should appeal in the wide range it covers. All are doing work worthy 01 the grants made and they are in need of money to carry on. 1 "There are additional bodies T should have liked to have seen assisted," added Mr. Parry, "but the best has been done with the money at our disposal from this source. lam glad tlint we have this ; money to hand out at Christmas time to the needy—a time when citizens like to feel that the circumstances of all are made comfortable and happy."