CHRISTMAS GIFT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23678, 9 December 1938, Page 14

CHRISTMAS GIFT

£12,000 FOR DISTRIBUTION GRANT FROM ART UNION FUNDS ALLOCATION FOR PHILANTHROPIC PURPOSES (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 8. The sum of £12,000 from art union funds is being allocated by the Government as a Christmas gift to a number of philanthropic and kindred institutions in New Zealand. The money which forms the grants comes from the accumulated surplus profits of the £SOOO alluvial gold art unions conducted during the year. The practice has been for some time to -dlocate £SOOO after the drawing of each art union to the various mayoral relief funds of the Dominion. The balance of the profits is kept until a sufficient sum has been gathered for special distribution among needy institutions from written requests received from the institutions for assistance. "I wish the sum now to be allocated were larger,'' stated the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr W E. Parry) to-day when announcing the grants from the art union funds. The following is the list of institutions to receive grants and the amount allocated to each institution:— Auckland National New Zealand Crippled Children' Society, £IOOO. St. Vincent de Paul Society Superior Council, £3OO. New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing, £3OO. Auckland Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £l5O. Auckland Jity Missions, "Whitneydale " Convalescent • Home, and General, £250. Flying Angel Mission to Seamen, £IOO. Auckland Institute for the Care of Backward Children, £2OO. Red Cross Society. Auckland, £l5O. Auckland Hospital Auxiliary General, £75. Mental Hospital, £75. Auckland Waterside Workers and Seamen's Hospital Comforts Fund, St. Joseph's Home. Auckland, £3OO. Auckland Jewish Benevolent Society, £IOO. Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society, £IOO. Auckland Ladies' Benevolent Society, £2OO. . Auckland Adult Deaf Society, £IOO. Auckland Seventh Day Adventist Welfare League, £SO. Henry Brett Memorial Home, £2o °- „ nnn Auckland Sailors' Home, £2OO. Auckland Miners' and Pensioners' Association, £75. British Legion (New Zealand), inc., Imperial ex-servicemen and women, £IOO. , Auckland metropolitan city relief (special relief not otherwise provided for), £l5O. Thames ■i Thames Miners' and Pensioners' Association, £75. Special relief old-age pensioners and others, £75. Waihi Waihi Miners' and 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. £IOO. Gisborne Special relief old-age pensioners and others. £75. Wanganui Wanganui Men's Shelter, £SO. Home of Compassion, £75. Palmerston North Palmerston North Hospital Auxiliary, £SO. Hastings St. John Ambulance Association, £IOO. Napier St. John Ambulance Association, £IOO. Wellington Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £l5O. Red Cross Society (Wellington centre), £l5O. Wellington Waterside Workers' Hospital Comforts Fund, £SO. Wellington City Mission, £250. Citizens' Day Nursery (Wellington), £l5O Women's National Reserve Residential Nursery, £l5O. Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstrearh, £3OO. Wellington Hospital Ladies' Auxiliary, £75. Smith Family Christmas Relief, £3OO

St. John Ambulance Association. £l5O. District Nursing Guild of St. John, £75. Wellington After Care Society. £ 150. New Zealand Permanent Force Old Comrades Association Benevolent Fund, £IOO. Wellington Free Ambulance (application supported by Mr W Nash as relief from petrol and sales tax amounting to £340, paid during the year ended 31/3/38). £SOO. Mothers' Helpers Society, £IOO. Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society. £IOO St Joseph's Orphanage. Upper Hutt, £l5O. Wellington Deaf Club, £IOO A.M.I.C. Mission to Seamen, £ 100. Wakefield Nursing Division, St. John Ambulance. £SO West Coast Hokitika Red Cross Society, £ 100 Ross Red Cross Societv, £IOO. Greymouth Special Relief Old Age Pensioners and others, £SO. Westport Special Relief Old Age Pensioners and other. £75. Christchurch St. Joseph's Boys' Home. Middleton, £l5O. Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £l5O. Christchurch Deaf Club, £IOO Red Cross Society, £l5O Cholmondlev Children's Home. £IOO. Christchurch Unemployed Women's and Girls' Committee. £SO Special relief old-age pensioners and others £SOO Lyttelton Lyttelton Waterside Workers' Hospital Comforts Fund. £SO Timaru St. John Ambulance Association. £l5O.

Dunedin Society for the Protection of Women and Children. £l5O. Red Cross Society, £l5O. Men's Mission House, £SO. Children's Rest Home, £SOO. Otago Centre St John Ambulance, £l5O. Roslyn District Nursing Association. £SO. Citizens' Day Nursery, £l5O. Imperial Ex-servicemen's Association relief, £ 100. Special relief old-age pensioners and others. £SOO, Envercargill St. John Ambulance Association, £IOO. Special relief old-age pensioners and others, £75. Total, £12,000.