McKENZIE TRUST

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 121, 24 May 1944, Page 6

McKENZIE TRUST

ANNUAL ALLOCATION

A TOTAL OF £4700 The annual meeting; of the board which administers the £100,000 trust created by Mr. and Mrs. J. R. McKenzie in 1940 for charitable and educational purposes throughout the Dominion was held recently in Wellington. The chairman of the board, Mr. J. S. Barton, announced when presenting his report, that since the inception of the trust a total of approximately £15,000 had been disbursed in accordance with the provisions of, the trust deed. The allocations as approved by the board are as follows: — New Zealand Returned Services' Association, £500; New Zealand Red Cross Society (Inc.), £500; Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children, including £300 for Maori Plunket nurses, £1300; Advisory Board Federation of Health. Camps, £600; Auckland Institue for the Care of Backward .Children, £150; Wellington After Care Society, £150: Occupation Centre for Sub-normal children, Christchurch, £135; Occupation Centre for Sub-normal Children, Dunedin, £125; Cholmondeley Child-' ren's Home, Christchurch, £150; the People's Church, Sydenham, . work among children and youth, £50,\Strathmore Park Baptist Sunday School, work among children and youthL £50: Dominion Headquarters, Girl Guides Association, "Handicapped Guides" Service, £50; Flying Angel' Missions to Seamen, Auckland, £75; Missions to Seamen, Wellington, £40; British Sailors' Society, Wellington, £40; National Committee Apostleship of the Sea, £50; British Sailors' Society, Lyttelton, £50; Toe H, Auckland, £50; Auckland City Mission, £50; Wellington City Mission, £50; Dunedin Methodist Central Missions Home for tha Aged, £25; Auckland Methodist Central Missions "Goodwill Industries," £25; Women's National Reserve Residential Nursery. Wellington, £25; Leper Sisters' Rest Home, Wellington, £30; Children' Rest Home, Dunedin, £25; Salvation Army, £50; Anglican. Archishop of New Zealand, £20; Presbyterian Churchl of New Zealand, £20; Baptist Union of New Zealand, £20; Congregational Union of New Zealand, £20; Crichton Cobbers', Club,\ Christchurch, £50; Boys' Institute, Wellington, £50; Heni Mataroa Children's Home, Gisborne, £10; Home of Compassion, Wanganui, work among Maoris on Wanganui River, £15; Marist 'Convent,. Waitaruke, North Auckland, care of Maori children, £15; Maftawatu, Willard Children's Home, Palmerston North, £10; Y.W.C.A. Dominion Headquarters, £50; Y.W.C.A. Recreational Leadership Training Course, £25; Don. McKenzie Memorial Hall, Christchurch, £25; Boy Scouts' Association, N.Z. branch, £25. Total, £4700. The board comprises eight members —a nominee of the Governor-General, a nominee of the Chief Justice, a nominee of the British Medical .Association, the District Governor of Rotary, and the presidents for the time being of the Auckland, Christchurch', Dunedin, and Wellington Rotary Clubs.