PROFITS FROM ART UNIONS

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25551, 20 July 1948, Page 4

PROFITS FROM ART UNIONS

GRANTS TO CHARITIES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 19. Charitable and philanthropic institutions to receive mid-winter grants from surplus profits of the £5OOO alluvial gold art unions were announced this evening by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr W. E. Parry). A total of £13,755 has been allocated in grants ranging from £25 to £lOOO. Institutions receiving the largest grants are: the New Zealand Crippled Children Society and the Commandery in New Zealand of the Order of St. John for its various branches, £lOOO each; the Auckland Orphanages United Council, £500; Homes of Compassion (Island Bay and Silverstream). the Smith family (Wellington), and the superior council of St. Vincent de Paul, £3OO each; New Zealand R.S.A., for relief of former Imperial servicemen and their dependents, £275; the leper nursing sisters’ rest home, the national committee of the Apostleship of the Sea, St. Joseph’s Home (Auckland), the Otaki Family Health Camp, and the Children’s Rest Home (Dunedin), £250 each. The Minister said these grants were apart from amounts paid regularly on the drawing of each art union to mayoral distress funds.