ART UNION FUNDS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22444, 4 July 1938, Page 15

ART UNION FUNDS

MONEY FOR RELIEF OF DISTRESS

ALLOCATION ANNOUNCED (rBE(S &SSOCIA.TIOW TBLXGBXK.) AUCKLAND, July 3. From the surplus profits of the £SOOO alluvial gold art unions conducted in New Zealand for the relief of distress, the sum of £8875 is being distributed by the (government as a special allocation to help the work of a number of philanthropic Institutions in the* DominionIn announcing the allocation, the Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon, W. E. Parry) explained that it was usual for the Government to make two allocations a year, apart frojm the £SOOO paid into the mayoral relief funds, and tho sum to be distributed was the first to be made this year. The following bodies were to benefit, to the extent of the sums mentioned, from the amount now to be distributed:—

N.Z. Crippled Children’s Society .. .. .. £ 1000 St. Vincent de Paul Society, Superior Council .. . - £3OO N.Z. League for the Hard of Hearing ... .. £3OO

Total .. .. £I6OO Local allocations were:— Auckland— Society for the Protection of Women and Children .. £l5O Auckland City Mission .. £2OO Open Door Mission, Auckland .. .. .. £IOO Flying Angel Mission to Seamen .. .. £IOO Auckland Institute for the Care of Backward Children £l5O Red Cross Society .. .. £l5O Auckland Hospital Auxiliary, general .. .. £7B Mental Hospital .. .. £75 Auckland Waterslders’ and Seamen’s Hospital Com- . forte Fund .. .. £SO St. Joseph’s Home, Auckland .. .. .. £3OO Auckland Jewish Benevolent Society ... ... £IOO Miners' Organisations Benefit Thames— Thames Miners* Pensioners’ Association .. .. £75 Special relief for old-age pensioners and others .. £75

Walhi— Walhl Miners’ Pensioners’ Association .. .. £79 Special relief of old-age pensioners and others .. £75 Coromandel— Coromandel Miners’ and Prospectors’ Association (to assist miner pensioners and others) .. .. £75 Tauranga— St. John Ambulance Association .. .. ■ £l5O

GisborneSpecial relief for old-age pensioners and others .. £75 Wellington— Society for the Protection of Women and Children .. £156 Red Cross Society .. .. £l5O Wellington Waterside Workers* Hospital Comforts Fund £SO Wellington City Mission .. £2OO Citizens’ day nursery .. £l5O Residential nursery .. £l5O Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream .. £SOO Smith family .. .. £3OO St. John. Ambulance Association M ££so

Ewart Hospital Patients’ Association .. .. £75 District Nursing Guild of St. John .. .. .. £75 Wellington After-care Society £l5O Wanganui— Wanganui men’s shelter .. £SO Home of Compassion .. £75 Palmerston North— Palmerston North Hospital Auxiliary .. .. £SO Hastings— St. John Ambulance Association ... .. -. £IOO Napier— St. John Ambulance Association .. .. .. £ 100 Christchurch— Society for the Protection of Women and Children .. £l5O

Red Cross Society .. £l5O Special relief for old-age pensioners and others .. £SOO Christchurch Unemployed Women and Girls’ Committee . - -. • • £SO

Timaru— St. John Ambulance Association ... .. .. £2OO Lyttelton— Lyttelton Waterside Workers’ Hospital Comforts Fund £SO Dunedin— Society for tho Protection of Women and Children .. £l5O Rod Cross Society .. £l5O Special relief for old-age pensioners and others .. £3OO Men’s Mission House .. £SO Children’s Rest Home .. £SOO Otago Centre, St. John Ambulance .. .. £l5O ROSlyn District Nursing Association .. .. £SO Citizens’ day nursery . . £l5O Invercargill— Red Cross Society .. £l5O Special relief for old-age pensioners and others .. £75 Greymouth— Special relief for old-age pensioners and others .. £SO Westport— Special relief for old-age pensioners and others . - £75 Mr Parry said that the work of the bodies to receive financial help was praiseworthy. Efforts were being made to make the distribution of funds as wide as possible, and in the list were some organisations which did not benefit from the allocation of £9400 made last December.