ART UNION FUNDS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 July 1938, Page 4

ART UNION FUNDS

I RELIEF OF DISTRESS. j [per press association.] AUCKLAND, July 3. From' the surplus profits of the £5OOO silluvial 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 allocation to help the work of a. number of philanthropic institutions in the Dominion. In announcing the allocation the Minister for Internal Affairs (Hon. W. E. Parry) explained that it was usual for the Government to make two allocations a. year, apart from the £5OOO paid into the mayoral relief funds, and (ho sum to be distributed was the first to be made this year. The following bodies Avere to benefit, to the extent of the sums: mentioned, from the amount now to be distributed: — N.Z. Crippled Children’s Society £l,OOO St. Vincent de Paul Society, Superior Council .. £3OO N.Z. League for the Hard of Hearing £3OO Total £l,OOO Local aiiocaticms were; — Auckland — Society for the Protection of Women and Children £l5O Auckland City Mission £2OO Open Door Mission, Auckland £lOO Flying Angel Mission to Seamen £lOO Auckland Institute for the Care of Backward Children ' £l5O Red Cross Society .. .. £l5O Auckland Hospital Auxiliary. general £75 Mental Hospital .. .. £75 Auckland Watersiders’ and Seamen’s Hospital Comforts Fund £5O St. Joseph’s Home, Auckland £3OO Auckland Jewish Benevolent Society .. .. '£loo Thames — Thames Miners’ Pensioners' Association £75 Special relief for old-age pensioners' and others £75 Wai hi— - Waihi .Miners’ Pensioners' Association £75 Special relief of old-age pensioners and others £75 CoromandelCoromandel Miner®' and ' Prospectors’ Association (to assist minor pensioners a.nd others) .. .. £75 Tauranga— Sr. John Ambulance' ' Association £l5O Gisborne—Special relief for old-age pensioners and others ... £75 W< llington- - Society for the Protection of Women and Children £l5O lied Cross Society .. .. £l5O j Wellington Waterside Work- [

ers’ Hospital Comforts’ Fund £5O Wellington City Mission £2OO Citizens’ day nursery .. £l5O Residential nursery .. £l5O Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream £3OO Smith family £3OO St. John Ambulance Association £l5O ' Gwarti Hospital Patients' Association £75 District Nursing Guild of St. John £75 Wellington. After-care Society £l5O Wanganui— Wanganui men’s 1 shelter £5O Home of Compassion .. £75 Palmerston North— Palmerston North Hospital Auxiliary £5O Hastings—St. John Ambulance Association £lOO

Napier—- * St. John Ambulance Association £lOO Christchurch — Society for the Protection of Women and Children £l5O lied Cross Society . . . . £l5O Special relief for old-age pensioners 'and others £5OO Christchurch Unemployed Women and Girls’ Committee .. .. ... .. £5O Tima.ru St, John Ambulance Association £2OO LytteltonLyttelton Waterside Workers’ Hospital Comforts Fund £5O DunedinSocicty for the Protection of Women and Children .. £l5O Red Cross Society .. £l5O Special relief for old-age pensioners and others £3OO Men’s Mission House .. . £5O Children’s Rest Home .. .£5OO Otago Centre, St. John Ambulance £l5O Roslyn District Nursing Association £5O Citizens’ day nursery .. e. 150 Invercargill— Red Cross Society .. .. £l5O Special relief for old-age pensioners and: others £75 Greymouth— Special relief for old-age pensioners and others £5O Westport— Special relief for old-age pensioners and others .. £75 Mr Parry said that the work of the bodies to receive financial help was praiseworthy. Efforts were being made to make the distribution of funds as wide as possible, and in the list were some organisations which did not benefit from the allocation of £9400 made last December.