VALUE OF ART UNIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 22 December 1938, Page 2

VALUE OF ART UNIONS

EMPHASISED BY MINISTER BENEFIT TO CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS |Untt«l Preae Am-KJiailool AUCKLAND, 21st December. The value of alluvial gold art unions for charitable organisations was emphasised by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr Parry, to-day. He said that the distribution of the profits to Mayors’ relief funds and to the funds of philanthropic and kindred institutions gave renewed financial vigour io many bodies whose work would otherwise be hampered or would cease. Mr Parry said he had received occasional letters from citizens saying that, though they disbelieved in art unions, they had put aside their principles because a particular society doing good work among deserving peopio had benefited from the funds so raised. “When the audit officer gives his certificate of the profits derived from each art union,” the Minister said, “the sum of £SOOO is almost automatically distributed to the various Mayors’ relief funds under instructions from the Government The balance is banked till it grows into a sum sufficient for allocation, generally twice yearly, to philanthropic organisations meriting assistance. While in communication with

some of the Auckland institutions this week, the management showed me how by reason of grants made from art unions their work could be extended/