MCKENZIE TRUST

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 121, 24 May 1945, Page 6

M CKENZIE TRUST

YEAR'S ALLOCATIONS

TOTAL OF £4808

The annual meeting of the board constituted to adminster the £100,000 trust created by Mr. J. R. McKenzie in 1940 for charitable and educational purposes, was held recently. There were in attendance the chairman, Mr. J. S. Barton, C.M.G., Major-General Bowerbank, and Messrs. C. H. Weston, XC. W. G. V. Ferhie (Christchurch Rotary Club), H. S. Wilkinson (Dunedin Rotary Club), A. W. Duncan (personal trustee), and F. A. R. Jones (administrator). . It was; reported that since the, creation of the benefaction by Mr McKenzie, £25,657 had been allocated. Allocation of the net income for the year ended on March 31 was as toiioNew~ Zealand Returned Services' Association, £1000; Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children (including £300 for Maori Plunket nurses), £1300; Federation of Health Camps, £665; Auckland Institute for the Care of Backward Children, £150; Wellington After Care Society, £150; Occupation Centre for Sub-normal Children, Christchurch, £135; Occupation Centre for Subnormal Children, Dunedin, £125; Cholmondeley Children's Home, Christchurch, £140; Rev. G. B Hinton, Kaiapoi (work among youth), ±,4U; Strathmore Park Baptist Sunday School, work among children and youth £40; Dominion Headquarters GM Guides' Association, "Handicapped Guides" Service, £40; Naenae Methodist Sunday School Committee, work among youth, £40- Flying Angel Missions to Seamen, Auckland, £80; Missions to Seamen,. Wellington, £40; British Sailors' Society, Wellington, £40; National Committee Appstleship of the Sea £40; British Sailors' Society, Lyt'telton, £50; Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury and Westland, Otago and Southland Toe H, £30 each; Auckland City Mission, £50; Wellington City Mission, £50; Dunedin Methodist Central Missions, Homes for the Aged, £25; Auckland Methodist Central 'Missions, " "Goodwill Industries,". £35; Women's National Reserve Residential Nursery, Wellington, £25; Leper Sisters' Rest Home, Wellington, £30; Children's Rest Home, Dunedin, £25; Salvation Army, £50; Crichton Cobbers' Club, Christchurch, £40; Cobbers' Club, Timaru, £20; Boys' Institute, Wellington, £50; Heni Mataroa Children's Home, Gisborne, £15; Home of Compassion. Wanganui, work among Maoris on Wanganui River, £20; Marist Convent, Waitaruke. North Auckland, care of Maori children, £20; Manawatu Willard Children's Home, Palmerston North, £20; Y.W.C.A. Dominion Headquarters, £40; Y.W.C.A. Recreational Leadership Training Course. £25; Don McKenzie Memorial Hall, Christchurch. £25: Boy Scouts' Association, New Zealand- branch (South Island), £50.

Tlie total sum allocated was £4808

ing at a military parade in Sligo, said: "As we were a loyal member of the old League of Nations, so are we prepared to become a loyal member of any new league that may be formed for collective security, if it promises to be an effective instrument for peace and accords to all nations a fundamental equality of right."