ART UNION FUNDS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 65, 9 December 1938, Page 12

ART UNION FUNDS

Christmas Allocation Of Surplus Profits £12,000 AVAILABLE Gifts For Philanthropic Institutions The sum ot £12,000 from art union funds is being allocated by the Government as a Christmas gift to a number of philanthropic and kindred institutions in New Zealand. The money which forms the grants comes from the accumtiialcu surplus profits of the £5OOO alluvial gold art unions conducted at intervals during the year. The practice lias been for some time to allocate £5OOO after the drawing of each art union to the various mavoral relief funds of the Dominion. The balance of the profits from the returns of each art union is kept till a sufficient sum has been gathered for a special distribution among needy institutions.

"From the written requests received from institutions for assistance, I wish tlie sum now to be allocated were larger.” said the Minister of Interna! Affairs, Air. Parry, in announcing last evening the grants to be made from art union funds. “So many bodies, even private organizations, rendering all kinds of service ami serving social and sports interests, apply for grants, large and small, from art union funds that there is not enough money to meet all applications however deserving most oi them may be. There may be. of course, other institutions beyond those mentioned in tlie list, which feel, from the work done in the community, they should benefit from Hie special Christmas allocation. It is thought, however, that the institutions now to be assisted are very representative of the different phases of the country’s social activities." The following is a list of the institutions to receive grants ami Hie amount allocated to each institution: — NATIONAL. £ New Zealand Crippled Children Society , St. Vincent de Paul Society, Superperiod Council . 3 lM ' New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing “99 WELLINGTONSociety for the Protection of Women and Children '“9 Rod Cross Society. Wellington Centre 1 “0 Wellington Waterside Workers Hospital Comforts Fund “9 Wellington City Alission '-“ l1 Citizens' Dav Nursery. Wellington F-0 Women's National Reserve Residential Nursery Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream “°9 AVellington Hospital Ladies’ Auxiliary f-’ Smith ' Family. Christmas relief . .>OO St. John Ambulance Association LjU District Nursing Guild of St. John 7-> AVellington After-Care Society .. 150 New Zealand Permanent Force Old Comrades’ Association Benevolent Fund 100 Wellington Free Ambulance (application supported by Minister of Finance, Air. Nash, as relief from petrol and sales tax—£‘>4o paid during year ended Alareh 31. 1938) “99 Afothers’ Helpers’ Society ...... 10" Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society 1"0 St. Joseph’s Orphanage. Upper Hutt 1?, 9 Wellington Deaf Club 100 A.Af.I.C. Mission to Seamen .... 10" Other Centres. Auckland. —Society for the Protection of Women and Children. £150: Auckland City Alission’s “Whitneydale” Convalescent Home and general, £250: Flying Angel Alission to Seamen, £100; Auckland Institute for the Care of Backward Children, £200; Red Cross Society. Auckland, £150; Auckland Hospital Auxiliary, general. £75, and mental and hospital. £75 ; Auckland Watersiders’ and Seamen's Hospital Comforts Fund. £5O; St. Joseph's Home. Auckland, £300: Auckland Jewish Benevolent Society, £100: Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society, £100; Auckland Ladies’ Benevolent Society, £200; Auckland Adult Deaf Society, £100; Auckland Seventh Day Adventist Welfare League. £5O; Henry Brett Alcmorial Home, £200; Auckland Sailors Home. £200: Auckland Aliners' Pensioners’ Association, £75; British Legion. N.Z. (Inc. (Imperial ex-servicemen and women). £100; Auckland Metropolitan City Relief (special relief not otherwise provided for), £l5O.

Thame.’. —Thames Miners’ Pensioners’ Association, £75: special. relief, old-age pensioners and others, £75.

Waihi.—Waihi Miners’ Pensioners’ Association, £75: special relief, old-age pensioners and others, £75.

Coromandel.—-Coromandel Miners' and Prospectors’ Association, _to assist miner pensioners and others, £7o. Tauranga.—St. John Ambulance Association, £lOO.

Gisborne.—Specia!__relief, old-age pen sioners and others, £75.

Wanganui. —Wanganui Men’s Shelter, £5O : Home of Compassion, £75. Palmerston North. —Palmerston North Hospital Auxiliary. £5O.

Hastings.—St. John Ambulance Association. £lOO. ' Napier.—St. John Ambulance Association. £1(10. Wakefield. —Nursing Division, St. John Amublancc, £5O. . Hokitika.—Red Cross Society. tIOO. Ross. —Red Cross Society, £lOO. Christchurch. — St. Joseph’s Boyr? Home, Middleton, £150: Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150: Christchurch Deaf Chib, £100: Red Cross Societv, £150: Chohnondiey Childrens Home,' £100; Christchurch Unemploye-1 Women’s and Girls' Committee. £oO: special relief, old age pensioners and others, £5OO. Titnaru. —St. John Ambulance Association, £l5O. . Lyttelton.—Lyttelton Waterside W others’‘Hospital Comforts Fund, £5O. Dunedin. —Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150; Red bross Society, £150; Men’s Mission House. £■><>: Children’s Rest Home, £500: Otago Centro St. John Ambulance,. £150; Roslyn District Nursing Association, £o0; Citizens' Day Nursery, £150: Imperial Ex; servicemen's Association (relief), £lOO, special relief, old age pensions and others. ’ Invercargill.— St. John Ambulance AsGreyinouth. —Special relief, old age pensioners and others. £75, . Greymouth.—Special jeilet, olu age pensioners and others, £5O. Westport.—Special .relief, old age pensioners and others, £75.