£12,000 FROM ART UNIONS

Evening Star, Issue 23136, 9 December 1938, Page 13

£12,000 FROM ART UNIONS

CHRISTMAS GIFT DISTRIBUTION MANY INSTITUTIONS BENEFIT £I,BOO TO GOME TO DUNEDIN (Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, December 8. The sum of £12,000 from art union funds is being allocated by the Government as a Christmas gift to a number of philanthropic and kindred institutions in New Zealand. The money which forms the grants comes from the accumulated surplus profits _ of the £5,000 alluvial gold art unions conducted during the year. The practice has been for some time to allocate £5,000 after the drawing of each art union to the various mayoral relief funds of the Dominion. The balance of the profits is kept until a sufficient sum has been gathered for special distribution among needy institutions from written requests received from the institutions for assistance. “ I wish the sum now to be allocated were larger,” stated the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr W. E. Parry) today, when announcing the grants from the art union funds. The following is the list of institutions to receive grants and the amount allocated to each institution:— —Dunedin.— Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £l5O. Red Cross Society, £l5O. Men’s Mission House, £SO. Children’s Rest Home, £SOO. Otago Centro St. John Ambulance, £l5O. Roslyn District Nursing Association, £SO. Citizens’ Day Nursery, £l5O. Imperial Ex-servicemen’s Association relief, £IOO. Special relief old age pensioners and others, £SOO. —lnvercargill. St. John Ambulance Association, £IOO. Special relief old age pensioners and others, £75. —Auckland.— National New Zealand Crippled Childrens’ Society, £I,OOO. St. Vincent de Paul Society Super* ior Council, £3OO. New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing, £3OO. Auckland Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £l5O. Auckland City Missions, “ Whitneydale ” Convalescent Home, and general, £250. Flying Angel Mission to Seamen, £ioo. . , , „ Auckland Institute for the Care of Backward Children, £2OO. Red Cross Society, Auckland, £l5O. Auckland Hospital Auxiliary General. £75. Mental Hospital, £75. Auckland Waterside Workers and Seamen’s Hospital comforts fund, £6O. St. Joseph’s Home, Auckland, £3OO. Auckland Jewish Benevolent Society, £IOO. Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society, £IOO. Auckland Ladies’ Benevolent Society, £2OO. Auckland Adult Deaf Society, £IOO. Auckland Seventh Day Adventist Welfare League, £SO. Henry Brett Memorial Home, £2OO. Auckland Sailors’ Home, £2OO. Auckland Miners and Pensioners’ Association, £75. British Legion (New Zealand), Inc., Imperial ex-servicemen and women, £IOO. Auckland metropolitan city relief (special relief; not otherwise provided for), £l5O. - —Thames.— Thames Miners and Pensioners’ Association, £75. ' Special relief old age pensioners and others, £75. —Waihi.— Waihi Miners and Pensioners’ Association, £75. Special relief old age pensioners and others, £75. —Coromandel.— Coromandel Miners and Prospectors’ Association (to assist miner pensioners and others), £75. —Tauranga.— St. John Ambulance Association, £IOO. —Gisborne.— Special relief old age pensioners and others, £75. —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. —Wellington.— Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £l5O. Red Cross Society (Wellington centre), £l5O. Wellington Waterside Workers’ Hospital comforts fund, £SO. Wellington City Mission, £250.

Women’s National .Reserve Residential Nursery, £l5O, Homes of Compassion* Island Bay | and Silverstreara, £3OO. ' i Wellington Hospital Ladies’ Auxin- I ary, £75. ' . I Smith Family Christmas relief, ,£3OO. j St. John Ambulance Association, i £l5O. . ■ , i District Nursing Guild of St. John, | £75. ■ i Wellington After Care Society, £l5O. ■ New Zealand Permanent Force Old Comrades Association benevolent fund, £IOO. _ Wellington Free Ambulance (application supported by Mr W. Nash as relief from petrol and sales tax amounting to £340. paid during the year ended 31/3/38), £SOO. Mothers’ Helpers Society, £IOO. _ Discharged- Prisoners’ Aid Society, £IOO. ~ , - St. Joseph’s Orphanage. Upper Hutt, £l5O. Wellington Deaf Club. £IOO. A.M.I.C. Mission to Seamen, £IOO. Wakefield Nursing Division, St. John Ambulance, £SO. —West Coast.— Hokitika Red Cross Society, £IOO. Ross Red Cross Society, £IOQ. Greymouth special relief old age pensioners and others, £SO. Westport special relief old age pensioners and others, £75. —Christchurch. St. Joseph’s Boys’ Home. Middleton, £l5O. Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £l5O. Christchurch Deaf Club, £IOO. Red Cross Society', £l5O. Cholmondley Children’s Home, £IOO. Christchurch Unemployed Women’s and Girls’ Committee, £SO. Special relief old age pensioners and others, £SOO. —Lyttelton.— Lyttelton Waterside Workers’ Hospital comforts fund, £SO. —Timaru.— St. John Ambulance Association, £l5O. Total, £12,000.