XMAS GIFTS

Grey River Argus, 10 December 1938, Page 14

XMAS GIFTS

From Art Union Funds 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 New Zealand. The money which forms the grants comes from the accumulated surplus profits of the £5,000 alluvial gold art unions conducted during the year. The practice has been for some time to allocate £5,000, after the drawing each art union, to the various Maypral 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 (the Hon. W. E. Parry) to-day, when announcing the grants. The following are the institutions to receive the grants and the amount allocated to each: — National New Zealand Crippled Children’s Society 1000 St. Vincent de Paul Society, Superior Council 600 New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing 600 Auckland. Societv for the Protection of Women and Children .. 100 City Mission’s “Whitneydale” Convalescent Home and general 250 Flying Angel Mission to Seamen 100 Institute for the Care of Backward Children 200 Red Cross Society General Hospital Auxiliary .... 7o Mental Hospital Auxiliary .... 7o Watersiders and Seamen’s Hospital Comforts Fund .... a 0 Jewish Benevolent Society .... 100 St. Joseph’s Home ; ’ 600 Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society .. 100 Ladies’ Benevolent Spciety .... 200 Adult. Deaf Society 100 Seventh Day Adventist. Welfare League 50 Henry Brett. Memorial Home . . 200 Sailors’ Home 200 Miners’ Pensioners’ Association 7o British Legion N.Z. (inc.) Imperial ex-Servicemen and Women • Metropolitan City Relief, special relief Thames Miners’ Pensioners’ Association Special relief old age pensioners and others, Thames .... 75 Waihi Miners’ Pensioners’ Association 7-' Special relief old age pensioners and others, Waihi 75 Coromandel Miners’ and Prospectors’ Association, miner pensioners and others 75 Tauranga St. John Ambulance Association

Gisborne. Special relief old age pensioners and others ?5 Wanganui. Wanganui Men’s Home 50 Home of' Compassion 75 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 50 City Mission 250 Citizens’ Day Nursery 150 Women’s National Reserve, residential ’ nursery 150 Homes “of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream .. 300 Hospital Ladies’ Auxiliary .... 75 “Smith Family,” Christmas relief 300 St. John Ambulance Association 150 District Nursing Guild of St. John After Care Society 150 New Zealand Permanent Forces, Old Comrades’ Association Benevolent Fund 103 Free Ambulance 500 'Mothers’ Helpers’ Society .... 100 I Discharged Prisoners’ Aid' SoI ciety 100 , St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Upper Hutt 150 ' Deaf Club 100 Mission to Seamen 100 Wakefield Nursing Division, St. John Ambulance 50 Hokitika. Red Cross Society .*..... 100 Ross. Red Cross Society .77 1 00 Christchurch. St. Joseph’s Boys’ Home, Middleton 150 Society for the Protection of Women and Children .. . 150 Deaf Club 100 Red„ Cross Society 150 Choimondeley Children’s Home 100 Unemployed Women’s and Girls’ Committee 50 Special relief, old-age pensioners, and others 500 Timaru. St. John Ambulance Association. 150 Lyttelton. Waterside Workers’ Hospital Comforts Fund 50 Dunedin. Society for the Protection of Women and Children .. ' 150 Red Cross Society 150 Men’s Mission House 50 Children’s Rest Home 500 Otago Centre,, St. John Ambulance 150 Roslyn District Nursing Association 50 Citizens’ Day Nursery 150 Imperial Ex-Servicemen’s Association, relief 100 Special relief, old age pensioners and others 500 Invercargill. St. John Ambulance Association 100 Special relief, old-age pensioners and others 75 Greymouth. Special relief, old-age pension-

ers and others 50 Westport. Special relief, old-age pensioners and others 75 Total 12,000'