£15,000 Art Union Funds To Charities

Northern Advocate, 30 July 1949, Page 5

£15,000 Art Union Funds To Charities

WELLINGTON, Sat. (P.A.) The names of various charitable and philanthropic institutions to receive grants from the surplus profits of the £SOOO alluvial gold art unions were announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Parry). A total of £15,030 was allocated, made up in grants ranging from £25 to £1250. The institutions receiving the largest grants are:—New Zealand Crippled Children Society, £100; Commandery in New Zealand of the Order of St John, for its various branches, £1250: Auckland Orphanages United Council (Inc.), £500; Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream, Smith Family, Wellington, and the Superior Council of St Vincent de Paul, each £300; Children’s Rest Home, Dunedin, Leper Nursing Sisters’ Rest Home, national committee of the Apostleship of the Sea, St Joseph’s Home, Auckland, and the Otaki family camp, £250 each; New Zealand Returned Services Association, for the relief of ex-Imper-ial servicemen and their dependants, Wellington, £275 each. The Minister explained that the grants now made were apart from amounts paid regularly on the drawing of each of the art unions to mayoral distress funds. The following are the allocations in the Auckland district:—Tuberculosis Association, £150; City Mission, £200; Campbell Bay convalescent home, £100; Institute for Care of Backward Children, £150; watersiders’ and seamen’s hospital comforts fund, £SO; Hospital Auxiliary (including Wilson Home and Epsom Infirmary), £75; Hospital Auxiliary (Mental Hospitals branch), £100; Miners Pensioners’ Association, £100; Childhaven, Epsom, £100; Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society, £100; Flying Angel Mission to Seamen, £75; Happiness Club, £100; Mater Misericordiae Hospital auxiliary guild, £75; Onehunga Hospital Auxiliary, £SO; Red Cross Society, £100; Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £200; St Joseph’s Home, £250; St Vincent’s Home of Compassion, £100; South Auckland Federation of Women's Institutes, £SO; Thames United Services Committee, £SO; Thames Miners Pensioners’ Association, £100; Waihi Miners Pensioners’ Association, £100; North Hokianga Federation of Women’s Institutes, £SO; Otahuhu branch, Auckland Hospital Auxiliary, £75; Adult Deaf Society, £SO; Residential Nursery Society,, £200; Adventurers’ Club, £SO; Papatoetoe branch, Middlemore Hospital Auxiliary, £SO; Mount Wellington-Panmure Play Nursery Association, £25; Orphanages United Council, £SOO.