ART UNION FUNDS

Evening Post, Issue 11, 13 July 1936, Page 10

ART UNION FUNDS

A USEFUL SURPLUS

SPECIAL ALLOCATION

£10,000 DISTRIBUTED

Linked up with the allocation of 5000 from the profits of the "It's Mine ; Last" Art Union to the various ayoral or other central relief funds, c Government has made a special location of undistributed surplus pros above £5000 from the' art unions vering the period of the last six Dnths. Combining the "It's Mine At Last" location and the special allocation >\v made, the amount distributed tals £10.000. The allocations are as follows:— Relief of distress throughout the Doinion, distributed through the various ayoral or other similar central relief nds on the basis of unemployed regisations, £5000. Society for the Protection of Women id Children, Auckland, Wellington. hristchurch, Dunedin, £150 each. Auckland City Mission (the Rev. Jassr Calder), £150. . , Open Door Mission, Auckland, £100. Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society, uckland, £100. ■ Epsom Infirmary Committee, Pukeohe (furnishing recreation room for .B. Patients), £150. New Zealand League for the Hard f Hearing, £250. Smith Family, Wellington (free milk sue to school children), £500. Mayor's Metropolitan Relief Commit:e, Wellington (re Relief Workers' anteen, Taranaki Street), £25. Wellington City Mission's Men's helter (the Rev. Fielden Taylor), •150. New Zealand Pved Cross, Wellington !entre (relief of distress), £150. Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society. Wellington, £150. Women's National Reserve Resiential Nursery, Wellington, £200. Citizens' Day Nursery. Wellington, MSO. ■ Wanganui Youths' ■ Afforestation lamp, £150. New Zealand Red Cross, Canterbury Centre (Relief of Distress), £150. Citizens' Day. Nursery, Dunedin. 1150. . Superior Council, St. Vincent de >aul Society of New Zealand (Relief if Distress throughout the Society's iranches), £250. Auckland Institute for the Care of 3ackward Children, £ 150. Auckland Community Sunshine Asociation (re Children's Health Camp md Sunshnie School), £250. Wellington Children's Health Camp Association, £250. The following amounts to be distri)uted to local organisations engaged n the relief of distress, for special vinter comforts not otherwise provid;d for, particularly for old age pen;ioners and the like: —Gisborne, £75; »Vestport, £75; Greymouth, £50; IJhristchurch, £500; Dunedin, £200; invercargill, £75; total, £975. The Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry), in referring this norning to the special allocation of £5000 the Government has now made from art union profits, said that the imount was obtained from the surplus aver £5000 usually granted to the Mayoral relief funds after each art union was drawn. "I think it will be found," said Mr. Parry, "that the special allocation made distributes worthily the surplus funds gathered from the art unions. I receive so very many applications for assistance from .deserving bodies that it is a most difficult task to meet them all, much as I- would like to do so. The bodies or funds to receive some help now in the special distribution are those which it.is considered are in the worst position today, and seriously in need of money to continue their good work. There are a number ,of bodies whose work is closely related to that which is being so well done by the bodies to receive assistance from the special allocation made, and it is hoped that it will be possible to give them help in the future."