£13,755 GRANTED TO CHARITIES: ART UNION PROFITS
(P.A.)
WELLINGTON, July 20.
The names of various charitable and philanthropic institutions to receive midvvinter grants from surplus profits of £SOOO alluvial gold art unions are announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. W. E. Parry.
A total of £13,755 has been allocated in grants ranging from £25 to £IOOO. Institutions receiving the largest grants are: New Zealand Crippled Children's Society and Commandery in New Zealand of the Order of St. John for its various branches, £IOOO each; Auckland Orphanages’ United Council, Incorporated, £500; Homes of Compassion, Islahd Bay and Silverstream, Smith Family, Wellington. Superior Council of St. Vincent de Paul, £3OO each: New Zealand R.S.A., for the relief of Imperial ex-service-men and their dependants, £275; Leper Nursing Sisters’ Rest Home, National Committee Apostleship of the Sea, St. Joseph’s Home, Auckland, Otaki Family Health Camp and Children’s Rest Home, Dunedin, £250 each.
The Minister said these grants were apart from the amounts paid regularly on the drawing of each art union to mayoral distress funds with Dominion application.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22694, 20 July 1948, Page 4
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