ART UNION FUNDS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 December 1938, Page 5

ART UNION FUNDS

£12,000 DISTRIBUTIONS

[per 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 Nev/ Zealand. The money which forms the grants comes from the accumulated surplus profits of the £5OOO alluvial gold art unions conducted during the year. The practice has been for some time to allocate £5OOO, 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 for assistance from institutions. I wish the sum now to be allocated were larger,’’ said the Minister for Internal Affairs (Hon. W. E. Parry) to-day, when announcing the grants.

The following are (be institutions to receive the grants and the amount, allocated io each: —

National N'ew Zealand Crippled Children’s Society 1000 St. Vincent de Paul Society, Superior Council 300 New Zealand League for the Hard of 300 Hearing Auckland. Society for the Protection of Women and Children 150 City Mission’s "Whltneydale" Convalescent Home and general 250 Flying Angel Mission to Seamen . . Insrirnte for the Care of Backward 100 Children 200 Red Cross Society .. 150 General Hospital Auxiliary < -1 Menial Hospital Auxiliary .. Watersiders’ and Seamen's Hospital Comforts Fund 50 Jewish Benevolent Society . . 100 St. Joseph’s Home . . . . . . 300 Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society 100 Ladies' Benevolent Society 200 Adult Deaf Society . . 100 Seventh Day Adventist. Welfare League 50 Henry Brett Memorial Home .. 200 Sailors’ Home 200 Miners’ Pensioners’ Association .. British Legion N.Z. (inc.) Imperial ex100 Servicemen and Women Metropolitan City Relief, special relief 150 Thames Miners' Pensioners’ Association i a Special relief old age pensioners and others, Thames . . 7 ;> Waihi Miners’ Pensioners’ Association . . 75 Special relief old age pensioners and others. Waihi .. . - ■ ■ Coromandel Miners’ &- Prospectors' Association. miner pensioners and others Tauranga St. John Ambulance Association 100 Gisborne Special relief old age pensioners .-.nd others Wanganui Wanganui Men’s Home Home of Compassion 50 Palmerston North Palmerston North Hospital Auxiliary . . 50 Hastings St. John Ambulance Association . . 100 Napier St. John Ambulance Association 100 Wellington Society for the Protection of Women and Children .150 Red Cross Society, Wellington Centre .. 150 Waterside Workers' Hospital Comforts Fund City Mission . . 50 250 Citizens’ Day Nursery 150 Women’s National Reserve, residential nursery 150 Hornes of Compassion, Island Ray and Sil verst ream 300 Hospital Ladies’ Auxiliary .. •‘Smith Family,” Christmas relief 300 St. John Ambulance Association .. 150 District Nursing Guild of St. John After Care Society .. • ■ • • ■ • 150 Now Zealand Permanent Forces. Old Com100 rades’ Association Benevolent Fund Free Ambulance .. - .. 500 Mothers’ Helpers’ Society . . 100 Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society • • St. Joseph's Orphanage. Upper Hutt .. 100 150 I Oil j 00 Deaf Club Mission to Seamen . . • • _ ■ ■ Wakefield Nursing Division St. John Ambulance Hokitika Red Cross Society . . 100 Ross Rea Cross Society . . 100 Christchurch St. Joseph’s Bovs’ Home. Middleton •• 150 Society for the protection of Women and Children 1 .lit 100 1 ’.ft Deaf Club Red Cross Society . . Cholomondeley Children's Home ■ ■ Unemployed Women's & Girls Committee J .»u 100 50. Special 'relief, old-age pensioners and 500 others Timarti St. John Ambulance Association .. 150 Lyttelton Waterside Workers' Hospital Comforts 50 Fund Dunedin Society for the Protection of Women and 150 Children J 50 Red Cross Society . . 50 Men's Mission House 500 Children’s Rest Home ” Otago Centre. St. John Ambulance 50 Roslyn District N'ttrsing Association .. Citizens’ Day Nursery 150 Imperial Ex-Sen icemen s Association. Spee'ial relief.' old-age pensioners and 100 500 others Invercargill Si. John Atnlmlance - Assn, ’ if ' tif !'‘ ’ ’ ’’, Special relief, old-age pensionms and JOO 50 others Grcymouth Special relief, old-age pensioners and 50 others Westport Special relief, old-age pensioners and -- others • ■ ■ ■ • ’ Total 2.000