ART UNION PROFITS

Evening Star, Issue 23000, 4 July 1938, Page 7

ART UNION PROFITS

SPECIAL ALLOCATIONS ANNOUNCED DUNEDIN INSTITUTIONS GET £1,500 [Pbe United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, July 3. From the surplus profits of the £SOOO alluvial gold art unions conducted in. New Zealand for the relief of distress, the sum of £8875 is being distributed by the Government as a special alio* cation to help the work of a number of philanthropic institutions in the Dominion. Announcing the allocation, the Minister of Internal. Affairs (Mr ff. E. Parry) explained that it was usual for the Government to make two allocations a year apart from the £SOOO paid into the mayoral relief funds, and the sum to be distributed was the first, to be made this year. The following bodies were to benefit to the extent of the sums mentioned from the amount now to be distributed.

New Zealand Crippled Children’s Society, £1000; St. Vincent de Paul Society Superior Council, £300; New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing, £3OO; —total, £I6OO. Auckland.—Society for the Protection of .Women and Children, £150; Auckland City Mission, £200; Open Door Mission, Auckland, £100; Flying Angel Mission to Seamen, £ 100; Auckland Institute for the Care of Backward Children, £150; Red Cross Society, £150; Auckland Hospital Auxiliary General, £75; Mental Hospital, £75; Auckland Watersiders and Seamen’s Hospital Comforts Fund, £SO; St. Joseph’s Home, Auckland, £300; Auckland Jewish Benevolent Society, £IOO. Thames. Thames Miners’ Pensiqners’ Association, £75; special relief of old-age pensioners and others, £75. Waihi.—Waihi Miners’ Pensioners* Association, £75; special relief of oldage pensioners and others, £75. Coromandel. —Coromandel Miners and Prospectors’ Association (to assist miner pensioners and others), £75; Tauranga St. John Ambulance Association, £ 150. .Gisborne.—Special relief of old-age pensioners and others, £75. Wellington.—Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150; Red Cross Society, £150; Wellington Waterside Workers’ Hospital Comforts Fund, £SO; Wellington City Mission, £200; Citizens’ Day Nursery, £150; Residential Nursery, £150; Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream, £300; Smith Family, £300; St. John Ambulance Association, £150; Ewart Hospital Patients’ Association, £75; District Nursing Guild of St. John. £75; Wellington After-care Society, £l5O. . , Wanganui.—Wanganui Men s Shelter, £SO; Home of Compassion, £75. Palmerston North. Palmerston North Hospital Auxiliary, £SO, Hastings.—St. John. Ambulance Association, £IOO. ... . Napier.—St. John Ambulance Association, £IOO. ■ • ~ ' Christchurch.— Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150; Red Cross Society, £150; special relief of old-age pensioners and otners, £500; Christchurch unemployed women s and Girls’ Committee. £SO. Timaru.—St. John Ambulance Association, £2OO. _ . ~ Lyttelton. Lyttelton Waterside Workers’ Hospital Comforts Fund, £SO. Dunedin.—Society for the Protection, of Women and Children.. £150; Red Cross Society, £150; special relief of old-age pensioners and others, £, 300, Men’s Mission House, £SO; Children s Rest Home, £500; Otago Centre St. John Ambulance, £150; Roslyn District Nursing Association, £SO; Citizens Day Nursery. £l5O. _ . , Invercargill.—Red Cross Society, £150; special relief of old-age pensioners and others, £75. Greymouth.—Special relief old-age pensioners and others, £SO. . Westport. Special relief old-age pensioners and others, £75. .1 Mr Parry said the work of the bodies to receive financial help was praiseworthy. Efforts were being made to make the distribution of the funds as wide as possible, and in the list were some organisations which did not benefit from the allocation of £9400 made last December.