ART UNION FUNDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23080, 4 July 1938, Page 13

ART UNION FUNDS

DISPOSAL OF PROFITS ALLOCATION OF £8175 PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTIONS WIDE DISTRIBUTION MADE From the surplus profits of the £SOOO alluvial gold art unions conducted in New 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. In announcing the allocation the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, explained that it was usual for the Government to make two allocations a year apart from £SOOO paid into mayoral relief funds, and the sum to be distributed was the first to be made this year. * Dominion organisations to benefit included the following:—New Zealand Crippled Children's Society, £1000; St Vincent de Paul Society, Superior Council, £300; New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing, £3OO. The Auckland District Other allocations for the North Island were as follows.— 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 Care of Backward Children, £150; Ked Cross Society, £150; Auckland Hospital Auxiliary, general, £75; Mental Hospital, £75; Auckland Watersides' and Seamen's Hospital Comforts Fund, £SO; St. Joseph's Home, Auckland, £300; Auckland Jewish Benevolent Society, £IOO. Thames: Thames Miners Pensioners' Association. £75; special relief, old age pensioners and others, £75. Waihi: Waihi Miners Pensioners' Association, £75; special relief, old-age pensioners and others, £75. Coromandel: Coromandel Miners and Prospectors' Association (to assist miner pensioners and others), £75. Tauranga: St. John Ambulance Association, £l5O. Gisborne: Special relief, old age pensioners and others, £75. Wellington's Share Wellington.—Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150; Bed Cross Society, £150; Wellington Waterside Workers' Hospital Comforts Fund, £SO; Wellington City Mission, £200; Citizens' day nursery, £150; residential nursery, £150; Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream, £300; Smith Family, £300; St. John Ambulance Association, £150; Ewart Hospital Patients' Association, £7-5; District Nursing Guild of St. John. £75; Wellington After-Care Society, £l5O. Other Centres.—Wanganui: Wanganui Men's Shelter, £SO; Home of Compassion, £75. Palmerston North: Palmerston North Ho.-:pital Auxiliary, £SO. Hastings: St. John Ambulance Association, £IOO. Napier: St. John Ambulance Association. £IOO. Mr. Parry said the work of the bodies to receive the financial help was praiseworthy. Efforts were being made to make the distribution of funds as widely as possible, and in the list were some organisations which did not benefit from the allocation of £9400 made last j December. j