ART UNION PROFITS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 94, 22 April 1933, Page 7

ART UNION PROFITS

£500 DECLINED

MATTER OF PRINCIPLE

ißy Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 21. Following the report tfcat it was intended to provide a maximum sum of £500 from the proceeds of the Great Easter art union to the Auckland Community Sunshine Association, the executive of the organisation has decided against accepting any funds raised by means of the art union. An official of the association stated that the decision1 had been made purely as a matter of principle. There was no hostility to the purpose of the Government, which was undoubtedly intended in the best spirit. The association was asked, by the Government whether it would care to participate in any proceeds from the art union. A telegram was then forwarded to the Government asking if the matter could be deferred until a meting .of the executive. Before the date of the executive meeting the Minister made the announcement through the newspapers that the sums would be made available. Since then no official notification had been received. "The executive naturally considered the. position very seriously," the official continued. "We have no money to carry on our health camps at Motuihi Island, but we felt that the children of Auckland, and New Zealand for that matter, were worthy of direct giving. We felt tho children wero being penalised by the holding of art unions. Our opinion is that people supporting art unions are the poorer people who hope to secure a substantial prize. They purchase these 2s 6d tickets, and their children are the sufferers as a consequence. The executive decided not to accept money from the art union, on the principle that the whole position .is like having an ambulance at the foot of a cliff instead of a fence at the top," the official concluded. '"We do not want to give approval of art unions. The work we do .is worthy of direct support."

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