£8875 ALLOCATED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 155, 4 July 1938, Page 4

£8875 ALLOCATED.

PROFITS OF ART UNIONS.

PHILANTHROPIC MOVEMENTS.

Allocation to a number of philanthropic institutions of a sum of £8875 from the surplus profits of the £5000 alluvial gold art unions conducted in Xew Zealand for the relief of distress is announced bv the Minister of Internal Affaire, the" Hon. W. E. Parry. National organisations to benefit include the following:—Xew Zealand Crippled Children's Society, £1000; St. Vincent de Paul Society, Superior Council, £300; New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing, £300. Other allocations for the North Island are as follow:—

Auckland. —Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150; Auckland City Mission, £200; Open Door Mission, Auckland, £100; Flying Angel Mission to Seamen, £100; Auckland Institute for Care ot Backward Children, £150; Red Cross Society, £150; Auckland Hospital Auxiliary, general, £75; Mental Hospital, £75; Auckland Watersiders' and Seamen's Hospital Comforts Fund, £50; St. Joseph'* Home. Auckland, £300; Auckland Jewish Benevolent Society, £100. Thames.—Thames Miners Pensioners' Association, £75; special^relief, old-age pensioners and others, £75.

Waihi.—Waihi Miners Pensioners' Association, £75; special relief, old-age pensioners and others, £75.

Coromandel. —Coromandel Miners and Prospectors l 'Association (to asißst miner pensioners and others), £75.

Tauranga.—St. John Ambulance Association, £150.

Gisborne.—Special relief, old-age pensioners and others, £75.

Wellington.—Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150; Red Cross Society, £150; Wellington Waterside Workers' Hospital Comforts Fund, £50; Wellington City Mission, £200; Citizens' Day Nursery, £l 50; residential nursery, £150; Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream, £300; Smith Family, £300; St. John Ambulance Association, £150; Ewart Hospital Patient*" Association, £75; District Nursing Guild of St. John, £75; Wellington After-Care Society, £150.

Other Centres.—Wanganui: Wanganui Men's Shelter, £50; Home of Compassion, £75. Palmerston North: Palmerston Xorth Hospital Auxiliary, £50. Hastings: St. John Ambulance Association, £100. Napier: St. John Ambulance Association, £100.