FUNDS ALLOCATED

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 237, 4 July 1938, Page 11

FUNDS ALLOCATED

Profits From Alluvial Gold Art Unions RELIEF OF DISTRESS Sum Of £8875 Distributed By Government By Telegraph—Prose Association. Auckland, July 3. From the surplus profits of the £5OOO alluvial gold art unions conducted in New Zealand for the relief of distress, the sum of £8875 is being distributed by the Government as a special allocation to help the work of a number of philanthropic institutions in the Dominion. In announcing the allocation, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. W. E. Parry, explained that it was usual for the Government to make two allocations a year apart from the £5OOO paid into the mayoral relief funds, and the sum to be distributed was the first to .be made this year. The following bodies were to benefit to the extent of sums mentioned from the amount now to be distributed :—■ £ New Zealand Crippled Children Society 1000 St. Vincent De Paul Society, Superior Council 300 New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing 300 AUCKLAND. Society fur the Protection of Women and Children 150 Auckland City Mission 200 Open Door Mission, Auckland .. 100 Flying Angel Mission to Seamen 100 Auckland Institute for the Care of Backward Children .... 150 Red Gross Society 150 Auckland Hospital Auxiliary General 75 Mental Hospital 75 Auckland Watersiders’ and Seamen’s Hospital Comforts Fund 50 St. Joseph's Home, Auckland .. 300 Auckland Jewish Benevolent Society 100 THAMES. Thames Miners’ Pensioners’ Association 75 Special Relief for Old Age Pensioners and others 75 WAIHI. Waihl Miners’ Pensioners’ Association 75 Special Relief for Old Age Pensioners and others 75 COROMANDEL. Coromandel Miners’ and Prospectors' Association (to assist miner pensioners and others) 75 TAURANGA. St. John Ambulance Association 150 GISBORiNE. Special Relief for Old Age Pensioners and others 75 WELLINGTON. J Society for the Protection of Women and Children 150 Red Cross Society 150 Wellington Waterside Workers’ Hospital Comforts Fund .. 50 Wellington City Mission ...... 200 Citizens’ Day Nursery 150 Residential Nursery 150 Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream 300 Smith Family 300 St. John Ambulance Association 150 Ewart Hospital Patients’ Association 75 District Nursing Guild of St. John 75 Wellington After-care Society .. 150 WANGANUI. Wanganui Men’s Shelter 50 Home of Compassion 75 PALMERSTON NORTH. Palmerston North. Hospital Auxiliary 50 HASTINGS. St. John Ambulance Association 100 NAPIER. St. John Ambulance Association 100 CHRISTCHURCH. Society for the Protection of Women and Children 150 Red Cross Society ISO Special Relief for Old Age Pensioners and others 590 Christchurch Unemployed Women's and Girls’ Committee 50 TIMARU. St. John Ambulance Association 200 LYTTELTON. Lyttelton Waterside Workers’ Hospital Comforts Fund .. 50 DUNEDIN. Society for the Protection of Women and Children 150 Red Cross Society 150 Special Relief for Old Age Pensioners and others 300 Men’s Mission House _5O Children’s Rest Home 500 Otago Centre. St. John Ambulance 100 Roslyn District Nursing Association 50 Citizen’s Day Nursery 150 INVERCARGILL. Red Cross Society 150 Special Relief for Old Age Pensioners and others 75 GREYMOUTH. Special Relief for Old Age Pensioners and others 50 WESTPORT. SiHicial Relief for Old Age Pensioners and others 75 Mr. Parry said the work of the bodies to receive financial help was praiseworthy. Efforts were being made to make the distribution of the funds as wide as possible, and in the list were some organisations which did not benefit from the allocation of £9400 made last December.