AN UNENVIABLE EXAMPLE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 36

AN UNENVIABLE EXAMPLE.

Y.W.C.A. AND ART UNIONS. AUCKLAND, June 28. Commenting on the raising of money by surprise packets for the Young Women’s Christian Association building fund, the Rev. A. M. Murray said, in an address on art unions last night: “Thousands, no doubt, have been drawn into the vortex of this gambling stream "or the first time, and who can say where many of them will end? The. Y.W.C.A. might just as well receive a dividend from the totalisator as receive money from art unions. Urless the directors of the Y.W.C.A. repudiate all money raised in this way, then they have dragged the institution into the mire, and held themselves up to the ensure of every rightthinking Christian, and left an unenviable example for unborn generations to follow. If the directors accept money received illegally then they have quietly bowed God out of their institution; for God, believe me, will be no party to such a thing.” THE GOVERNMENT’S DECISION. WELLINGTON, June 28. Although .he Government has decided that no further applications for licenses for holding large art unions will be granted, there are four in which definite promises had been made before the decision Was arrived at. It has been decided that these must be finished before March 31, 1927.