ART UNION PROFITS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1946, Page 3

ART UNION PROFITS

ALLOCAT lONS ANNOUNCED BY MINISTER (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 5. The names of various charitable and philanthropic institutions in New Zealand to receive Christmas grants from surplus profits of £5OOO alluvial gold art unions were made available by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr. W. E. Parry) to-night. A total of £14,965 was'■allocated, made up in grants ranging from. £25 to £lOOO.

Institutions receiving the largest grants were the New Zealand Crippled Children Society, the commandery in New Zealand of the Order of St. John for its various branches, £lOOO each; the Wellington District Free Ambulance, £500; the Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream, the Smith family, Wellington. the Superior Council of the St. Vincent de Paul Federation of New Zealand, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, £3OO each; the Auckland City Mission, Children’s Rest Home, Dunedin, leper nursing sisters’ rest home, the national committee of the Apostleship of the Sea, St. Joseph’s Home, Auckland, the Otaki family camp, the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association for the relief of former Imperial servicemen and their dependants, Wellington, £250 each. The Minister explained that the grants now made were apart from the amounts paid regularly on the drawing of each of the art unions to mayoral distress funds with a Dominion application.