CHARITY THAT GOES ABROAD!

NZ Truth, Issue 1063, 8 April 1926, Page 9

CHARITY THAT GOES ABROAD!

. (From "Truth's" Special Wellington Representative.) '•'■'■. V T, Art union promoters are still flooding the Dominion' ' with circulars arid books of tickets. '-'"■'':' Some time ago "Truth" advised readers to return the. cadging propaganda plus the tickets m an unstamped en- ■■'■ yelope. ■' , : \ '■: ■,\ .. . ■; •; v ■ .■. . . ■ . ■•■ p this is done by a few thousand recipients the pro- • motefs of art unions m the Commonwealth will speedily , ? realize that charity begins at home and will take infinite pains to keep it there. The latest venture to come under notice is the "Erina Shire Memorial Hospital ; Art Union," promoted for the purpose of building a hospital between Sydney and New- t •:T'';;;:castle. .-. ■' .- : -.. ■■■■ • ■'■■-' ' :: ■-.■'.;.;. ./ ■-..•■■..•■.■■•••■■■•-■ . ■'■" ■. : Ar ! . accompanyin^the book of 25 tickets . ;''' ;^ v 'windsyup;-witli'..this'' remarkable injunction: "Please fill m Uthe names anil addresses on the butts WHERE POS- - I-' $IBLE; do noli detach drawing dockets." ; . ; ' Where some unscrupulous person decides that it is ■v;/ v -itot^p(^tie; ; ''ahd:'Gdnyer^'thfi' cash to his own use the purchasers of the tickets might just as well throw their shillings into the > gutter and walk away, since their chances of any published results (m this country) are extremely remote. ' .