ART UNION PROCEEDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 11

ART UNION PROCEEDS

DISTRIBUTION ANNOUNCED AUCKLAND BODIES BENEFIT [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Friday The following allocations from the "Happy Moments" art onion, which closed on October 21, are announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs:— Relief of distress, £2500 (to be distributed on a pro rata basis of unemployed registrations as at the latest date available to localities showing regfctrations totalling 50 or more) ; Women's National Reserve, residential nursery, Wellington, £500; Prisoners' Aid Society, Auckland (Rev. G. E. Moreton), £300; West Coast Competition Society, in the reduction of liabilities, £200; Taranaki Metropolitan Agricultural Society, in the reduction o? liabilities, £IOOO. Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Association, in the reduction of liabilities, £1000; Association of New Zealand Art Societies, to provide travelling scholarship, £300; Aorangi Ski Club, to liquidate debts incurred in the erection of the chalet at the Tasman Glacier, £500; Wanganui Development League, for a youths' afforestation camp established by the League for Unemployed Youths between the ages of 16 and 20, £230; Waimate Horticultural, Agricultural and Industrial Society, to liquidate the debt on its hall, £4OO. Buckland's Beach Domain Board, to liquidate advances made by local residents to meet the board's debts, £325; Greenmeadows Progressive Association, to liquidate the bank overdraft, £400; Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Association, Rangiora, to assist in liquidating liabilities, £SOO. Total, £SI7S.