ART UNION PROFITS

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 July 1946, Page 6

ART UNION PROFITS

£12.130 ALLOTTED TO CHARITY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 31. A total of £12,130 has been allocated from the surplus profits of 5000 alluvial gold art unions for distribution to various charitable and philanthropic institutions as midwinter grants, these ranging from £25 to £lOOO, said the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr. Parry) to-day. The institutions receiving the largest grants were the New Zealand Crippled Children’s Society and the Commandery in New Zealand of the Order of St. John for its various branches, £1000; the homes of Compassion at Island Bay and Silverstream, the Smith Family, Wellington, the Superior Council of St. Vincent de Paul, the Wellington Tuberculosis Association, each £300; the Children’s Rest Home, Dunedin, the Leper Nursing Sisters’ Rest Home, the national committee of the Apostleship of the Sea, St. Joseph’s Home, Auckland, the Otaki family camp, and the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association for the relief of ex-imperial servicemen and their dependants, each £250. The Minister added that grants now made were apart from the amounts paid regularly on. the drawing of each of the art unions to mayoral distress funds with Dominion application.