STATE GIFT TO CHARITIES

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27496, 2 November 1954, Page 12

STATE GIFT TO CHARITIES

129 BODIES TO SHARE £24,950 DISTRIBUTION OF ART UNION PROFITS (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 1. A hundred and twenty-nine organisations engaged in charitable work would benefit by £24.950 from art union funds, said the Minister of Internal Affairs (Sir William Bodkin) today. The largest payments authorised were to various orphanages and organisations directly concerned with the. welfare of children. Grants of £8675 were made to this group, said the Minister, including £lOOO to the Crippled Children Society. Other groups and organisations to benefit are:— The Commandery of’the Order of St John, £1000; hospital auxiliaries, £1725; relief organisations, £5200; Miner Pensioner Association, £475New Zealand Red Cross Society and its branches, £500; discharged prisoner aid societies. £200; societies for the protection of women and children, £500; tuberculosis associations, £625associations of the deaf, £150; associations of the blind, £150: home help schemes, - £350; family guidance centres, £ 150: homes of compassion and old folks’ homes, £2412; youth organisations, £450; city missions, £950; convalescent homes, £600; other welfare organisatiojis, varying amounts totalling £B3B. Sir William Bodkin added that it was his intention to divert the entire proceeds of the Christmas art union to. the children’s health camp movement. -