ART UNION SHARE

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 184, 2 May 1933, Page 8

ART UNION SHARE

Offer to Association AUCKLAND REFUSAL ■ Many Other Applicants DELUGE OF LETTERS Ever since the Auckland Com- - niunity Sunshine Association publicly announced about ten days ago that it was not prepared to accept a share of the art union proceeds as a matter of principle, the Minister of Health, Hon. J. A. Young, Ims been inundated with applications by organisations anxious to take advantage of the offer made to the association. Applications have bee reaching his oiliee daily irom all parts of the Dominion. The facts of the position were explained by Mr. Young in the course of an interview last evening. He s.uu that the Wellington Children s Health Camp Association, the Waikato Child ten’s Camp League, the Christchurch Sunlight League Health Camp and th Dunedin Health Camp Association had applied for assistance from one of the £4OOO alluvial gold art unions. He had thereupon instructed the Department of Internal Affairs to approach the Auckland Community Sunshine Association to see whether that organisation would care to participate in any distribution of funds made for the purpose of assisting children’s health camps. . , , The Auckland association had, on moral'grounds, declined to accept any such assistance. The effect of this had been that he had been inundated with applications from all classes of organisations for sums up to £5OO, m the belief that that sum had been allocated to the association and had been declined, which, of course, was not strictly correct. “A feature of interest,” said Mr. Young, “is that arising out of the announcement by the Auckland Community Sunshine Association, and following close upon a deputation from the Auckland Council of Christian Congregations which recently waited on me in protest against State lotteries, requests have been received from a number of church organisations for art union assistance. Included in these requests were applications from several church organisations which were from the denominations covered by the deputation from the Auckland Council of Christian Congregations.”