McKenzie Trust Approves Grants Totalling £32,950

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29330, 8 October 1960, Page 14

McKenzie Trust Approves Grants Totalling £32,950

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, October 7. Grants totalling £32,950 were announced by the J. R. McKenzie Trust Board today. This brings the total amount distributed since the inception of the trust to £270,600. The grants approved included: Specific Objects McKenzie Research Fellowship, administered by the New Zealand Cancer Campaign (to further research in the field of cancer) £1750, Heritage (distribution to branches) £2BOO. Royal Society for the Health of Women and Children £BOO, New Zealand Returned Servicemen’s Association (special assistance) £750, J. R. McKenzie Youth Education Committee (New Zealand trustees) to assist young people of either sex £2250. National Organisations British Sailors’ Society (N.Z.) (welfare work in Auckland, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers. Taranaki, and Bluff) £2OO, Boy Scouts’ Association of New Zealand (leadership training) £3OO, Boys’ Brigade (N.Z.) Council (leadership training) £3OO, New Zealand Civilian Amputees’ Association £lOO. Church Army in New Zealand Society (training of officers) £lOO. New Zealand Free Kindergarten Union (reprinting handbook) £lOO. Missions to Seamen “Flying Angel” (welfare work in ports) £2OO. Federation of New Zealand Parents’ Centre (distribution to branches) £2OO. Girl Guides’ Association (leadership training, etc) £5OO, Intellectually Handicapped Children’s Parents’ Association (distribution to branches) £2OO, Navy League of New Zealand (developments and extension Sea Cadet Corps) £3OO. National Society of Alcoholism £l5O, League of the Hard of Hearing £lOO, Federation of New Zealand Societies for the Protection of Home and Family (distribution to branches) £2OO, Federation of Tuberculosis Associations £l5O. Federation of Nursery Play Centres Association (publication of manual) £250. Council for Educational Research £250, Student Christian Movement Society (distribution to branches) £2OO, New Zealand branch of British Epilepsy Association (for distribution to branches) £lOO, Workers’ Education Association (expansion of programme) £5O. Women’s Christian Temperance Union (seamen’s rests at Timaru and New Plymouth) £lOO, Priory in New Zealand. Order of St John (administration) £3OO. Prisoners' Aid and Rehabilitation Society £250, Forest and Bird Protection Society (development work among school children) £5O. Red Cross Society (distributon to branches) £3OO. Salvation Army (residential nursery in Wellington, Florence Booth girls’ home in Wellington, and the Bridge Institution for Alcoholics) £BOO, St. Vincent de Paul Sbciety in New Zealand (distribution to branches) £3OO, Toe

H of New Zealand (social services to elderly people) £3OO, University of Otago (provision furniture in J. R. McKenzie Room in home science residential hall) £lOOO. Y.M.C.A. headquarters £5OO (distribution to branches), Y.W.C.A. headquarters (distribution to branches) £3OO, Youth Hostels Association (distribution to branches) £3OO.