ART UNION PROFITS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1940, Page 5

ART UNION PROFITS

CHRISTMAS GIFTS

DISTRIBUTION OF £10,975

CHARITY BENEFITS

Grants amounting to £10,975 are being made by the Government as Christmas donations towards the funds of a number of charitable and philanthropic institutions in New Zealand. The money comes from the surplus profits of the £5000 alluvial gold art unions held periodically throughout the year. The grants range from £50 up to £1000, the bodies to receive the last-mentioned sum being the Crippled Children Society and the Commandery in New Zealand of the Order of St. John for its branches and subsidiary organisations for relief purposes. The Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr. Parry), in announcing the allocation of grants, said that war conditions had made heavy demands on the funds of some of the institutions to benefit from art union profits. There had been a noticeable faliing-off in the profits of the art unions due to the public having devoted spare money to the various patriotic funds. LIST OF GRANTS. The institutions and the grants made to each are as follows: — £1000 each: New Zealand Crippled Children Society; Commandery in New Zealand of the Order of St. John, for branches and subsidiary organisations for relief purposes. £500: Wellington District Free Ambulance. £300 each: St. Vincent de. Paul Society, Superior Council; St. Joseph's Home, Auckland; Smith Family, Wellington, Christmas relief; Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream; special relief, old age pensioners and others, Christchurch; same, Dunedin. £250 each: Society for the Protection of Women and Children, Auckland; Auckland City Mission; Wellington City Mission; National Committee, Apostleship of the Sea; Children's Rest Home, Dunedin; Leper Sisters' Best Horn*, Wellington; St. Joseph's Orphanage, Upper Hutt. - £200 each: New Zealand League for Hard of Hearing, Auckland; Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society, Auckland; Henry Brett Memorial Home, Auckland; Auckland Sailors' Home.

£150 each: Society for the Protection of Women and Children, Wellington; Auckland Institute for the Care of Backward Children; Wellington After-care Society; Citizens' Day Nursery, Wellington; same, Dunedin; Women's National Reserve Residential Nursery, Wellington.

£100 each: New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing, Wellington; same, Christchurch; same, Dunedin; Society for the Protection of Women and Children, Christchurch; same, Dunedin; Flying Angel Mission to Seamen, Auckland; Auckland Jewish Benevolent Society; British Sailors' Society, Lyttelton; Cholmondley Children's Home, Christchurch; Nazareth House, Sydenham; Home of the Good Shepherd, Christchurch; St. Joseph's .Boys', Home, Christchurch; same, Dunedin;; Mater Misericordiae Hospital Auxiliary Service Guild; Occupational Centre for Sub-normal Children, Dunedin; St. Barnabas' Babies' Home Society, Wellington; St. Mary's Orphanage, Nelson; St. Vincent's Orphanage, South Dunedin; Permanent Force Old Comrades' Association, relief. j

£75 each: Wellington Ladies' Hospital Auxiliary; Wellington Social Club for the Blind; Auckland Miners' Pensioners' Association; same, Thames; same, Waihi; Coromandel Miners' and Pensioners' Association (special relief, miners' pensioners, and others); special relief, old age pensioners and others, Invercargill.

£50 each: New Zealand League for Hard of Hearing, New Plymouth; Auckland Watersiders' and Seamen's Hospital Comforts Fund; Wellington Waterside Workers' Hospital Comforts Fund; same, Lyttelton; Palmerston North Hospital Auxiliary; Prison Gate Mission, Christchurch; National Council of Women, Christchurch (comforts for patients in mental hospitals); Men's Mission House, Dunedin; Roslyn District Nursing Association; Invercargill Sixpenny Clothing Club; , Thames United Services Committee, hospital comforts fund; Ewart Hospital Patients' Association; Seacliff Mental Hospital Patients' Recreation Fund; same, Sunnyside; special relief, old age pensioners and others, Waihi; same, Westport. •