PROFITS OF ART UNIONS
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS ALLOCATIONS (PRESS ASSOCIATION I'ELKGRAM.) WELLINGTON, December 12. Grants amounting to £10,975 are being made by the Government as Christmas donations towards the funds of some charitable and philanthropic institutions in New Zealand. The money comes from the surplus profits of art unions held periodically throughout the year. There are two allocations of £IOOO each, these being to the Crippled Children Society and the commandery in New Zealand of the Order of St. John, for branches and subsidiary organisations for relief purposes. There is a grant of £SOO to the Wellington district free ambulance, and grants of £3OO (o the superior council of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, St. Joseph's Home. Auckland, the Smith family, Wellington, the Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstrcam, and the special relief of old pensioners and others at Christchurch and Dunedin. Substantial gifts are made to the Society for the Protection of Women and Children in the four mam centres, and to various homes and orphanages, hospitals, and institutions.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23202, 13 December 1940, Page 10
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