ART UNION PROFITS
OVER £IO,OOO ALLOCATED
NUMEROUS SUMS TO AUCKLAND [by telegraph—own correspondent] WELLINGTON, Wednesday From surplus profits of various art unions, after paying the usual, contributions to Mayoral distress funds, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, announced the distribution of £10,075, from which the largest individual grants are £IOOO each to the New Zealand Crippled Children's Society and the Commandery in New Zealand of the Order of St. John.
The following Auckland grants are included in the allocation:—Hard of Hearing League, £200; Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £250; Auckland City Mission, £200; Flying Angel Missions to Seamen, £100; Institute for the Care of Backward Children, £150; Auckland Hospital Auxiliary, including Wilson Home and Epsom Infirmary, £l5O, and Mental Hospital branch, £75; Red Cross Society, for peace-time activities only, £150; Auckland Watersiders and Seamen's Hospital Comforts Fund, £SO; Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society, £100; St. Joseph's Home, £300; Auckland, Thames, Waihi aiid Coroniandel pensioners, £75 each place; Mater Misericordiae Auxiliary Services Guild, £IOO.
Included in the national grants are: —St. Vincent de Paul Society, £300; National Committee of the Apostleship of the Sea, £250; New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association, for the relief of ex-Imperial soldiers, £SOO.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23687, 20 June 1940, Page 8
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