DISTRIBUTION OF ART UNION PROFITS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 July 1938, Page 7

DISTRIBUTION OF ART UNION PROFITS.

ONLY £SO FOR PALMERSTON NORTH

(By Telegraph —Fress Association AUCKLAND, Last Night

From the surplus profits of the £SOOO alluvial gold art unions conducted in Now Zealand for the relief of distress the sum of £8875 is being distributed by the Government as a special allocation to help the work of a number of philanthropic institutions in the Dominion.

lu announcing tlio allocation the Minister of internal Affairs (Hon. W. E. Parry) -explained that it was usual for the Government to make two allocations a year apart from the £SOOO paid into the Mayoral relief funds, and the sum to be distributed Avas the first to be made this year. The following bodies were to benefit to the extent of the sums mentioned from the amount now to be distributed: —

N.Z. Crippled Children ’s Society 1000 St. Vincent de Paul Society Superior Council .. .. .. •. 300 N.Z. League for the Hard of Hearing 300 Auckland Society for the Protection of Women and Children .. 150 Auckland City Mission 200 Open Door Mission, Auckland .. 100 Flying Angel Mission to Seamen 100 Auckland Institute for the Care of Backward Children 150 Eed Cross Society 150 Auckland Hospital Auxiliary— General 75 Mental Hospital 75 Auckland Watersiders and Sea- . men’s Hospital Comforts Fund 50 St. Joseph’s Home, Auckland .. 300 Auckland Jewish Benevolent Society 100 Thames Miners’ Pensioners Association 75 Special Belief Old Age Pensioners and others, Thames 75 Waihi Miners’ Pensioners Association 75 Special Belief Old Age Pensioners and others, Waihi 75 Coromandel Miners’ and Prospectors’ Association (to assist miner pensioners and others) 75 Tauranga St. John Ambulance Association .. 150 Gisborne Special Belief Old Age Pensioners and others 75 Wellington Society for the Protection of Women and Children 150 Wellington Bed Cross Society .. 150 Wellington Waterside Workers’ Hospital- Comforts Fund 50 Wellington City Mission .. .... ' 200 Wellington -Citizens ’ Day Nursery 150 Wellington Eesidential Nursery 150 Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream .. 300 Smith Family ; 300 Wellington St. John Ambulance Association ~ .. .... 150 Ewart Hospital Patients ’ Association ...... .. 75 Wellington District Nursing Guild of St. John’s .. • 75 Wellington After-Care Society .. *l5O Wanganui Men’s Shelter .... 50 Wanganui Home of Compassion 75 Palmerston North Hospital Auxiliary .. .. 50 Hastings St. John Ambulance Association .. .. ...... .. 100 Napier St. John Ambulance Association 100 Christchurch Society for the 'Protection of Women and\ Children 150 Christchurch Bed Cross Society 150 Special Belief o t Old Age Pensioners and others, Christchurch 50,0 Christchurch Unemployed Women ’s and Girls’ Committee .. 50 .Timaru St. John Ambulance Association '. . . ... A , iV . .. ,200 ‘ Lyttelton Walefsjde' ('Workers *. ■ ‘Hospital'Coihforis'lPhhd .... 50

Dunedin Society for the Protection of Women and ClnS'dren 150 Dunedin ,Eed Cross Society .. 150 Special Belief of Old Age Pein sioners an<J others, Dunedin .. 300 Dunedin Men ’s Mission House ; .. 50 Dunedin Children ’s Best Home 500 Otago Centre St. John Ambulance 150 Eoslyn District Nursing Association 50 Dunedin Citizen’s Day Nursery 150 Invercargill Bed Cross Society .. 150 Special Belief of Old Age Pensioners and others, Invercargill 75 Greymouth Special Belief of Old : Age Pensioners and others- .. 50 Westport Special Belief of Old Age Pensioners and others .. 75 Mr. Parry said the work of, the bodies to receive financial help was praiseworthy. Efforts were being made to make the distribution of funds as wide as possible and in the list were some organisations. ; which did not benefit from the allocation of the- £sl-100 made last December.