DUNEDIN ALLOCATION
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
The Mayor announced ■ this morning his allocation of the £5300 which is Dunedin's share of Lord Nuffield's gift. The main sums are £1000 to the Truby King Harris Hospital Building Fund, £500 to the Crippled Children's Fund, £500 to the Company Bay Health Camp Building Fund, £500 to the Mayor's Relief Fund, £500 to the Nuffield Sports Promotion Fund, £500 to the Eventide Homes Fund, £200 to the Mater Miseracordiae Hospital, and £200 to the Children's Rest Home Building Fund. There are 27 othersocieties benefited by sums ranging from £100 to £10.
The amount sought by various socie-ties-would have involved £70,000 said the Mayor. The Nuffield Sports Promotion Fund is to be available to sporting and charitable societies as an advance for expenses in arranging carnivals, etc., provided that such events are insured against loss so that the fund always remains intact. The Mayor has been offered by Miss Muriel ■ Hare free electrical massage treatment up to a total of £1000 for infantile paralysis suffcrerr
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 10
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173DUNEDIN ALLOCATION Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 10
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