CHRISTMAS GIFTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19808, 9 December 1938, Page 13

CHRISTMAS GIFTS

SOCIAL SERVICE BODIES ART UNION SURPLUSES SUM OF £12,000 ALLOCATED GISBORNE’S £75 QUOTA (Per Pruss Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. 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 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 allocate £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 the written requests received from the institutions for assistance, I wish the sum now to be allocated were larger,” stated the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, yesterday, when announcing the grants from the art union funds. The following is the list of institutions to receive grants and the amounts allocated to each institution:

National New Zealand Crippled Childrens’ Society, £1000; St. Vincent De Paul Society' Superior Council, £300; New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing, £300; Auckland Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150; Auckland City Mission, “Whitneydale” Convalescent Home and general, £250; Filing Angel Mission to Seamen, £100; Auckland Institute for the care of Backward Children, £200; Red Cross Society, Auckland, £150; Auckland Hospital Auxiliary, general £75, mental hospital £75; Auckland Watersiders’ and Seamen’s Hospital Comforts Fund, £SO; St. Joseph’s Home, Auckland. £300; Auckland Jewish Benevolent Society. £100; Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society, £100; Auckland Ladies’ Benevolent Society, £200; Auckland Adult Deaf Society, £100; Auckland Seventh Day Adventist Welfare League, £SO; Henry Brett Memorial Home, £200; Auckland Sailors’ Home, £200; Auckland Miners’ Pensioners’ Association, £75; British Legion, N.Z. Inc., Imperial Ex-servicemen and Women, £100; Auckland metropolitan city relief, special relief not otherwise provided for, £l5O.

Thames Miners’ Pensioners’ Association, £75; special relief for old-age pensioners and others, £75-

Waihi Miners’ Pensioners’ Association, £75 • special relief for old-age pensioners and others, £75. Coromandel Miners and Prospectors’ Association, to assist miner pensioners and otners, £75. Tauranga St. John Ambulance Association, £IOO.

Gisborne, special relief for old-age pensioners and others, £75. Wanganui Men’s Shelter, £SO; Home of Compassion, £75. 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, £150; Red Cross Society, Wellington centre, £150; Wellington Waterside Workers’ hospital comfort fund, £SO; Wellington City Mission, £250; Citizens’ Day Nurse: v, Wellington, £150; Women’s National Reserve residential nursery, £150; Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream, £300; Wellington Hospital Ladies’ Auxiliary, £75; Smith Family, Christmas relief, £300; St. John Ambulance Association, £150; District Nursing Guild of St. John, £75; Wellington After-Care Society, £150; New Zealand Permanent Force Old Comrades’ Association Benenevo- * t Fund, £100; Wellington Free Ambulance, application supported by the Hon. W. Nash as relief from petrol and sales tax. £340, paid during the year ended March 31, 1938, £SOO - LVTt her c '’ Helpers’ Society, £100; Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society. £ioo >n. Joseph’s Orphanage, Upper Hutt, £150; Wellington Deaf Club. A.M.I.C. Mission to JSeamen, £100; Wakefield Nursing Division, St. John Ambulance, £SO.

Hokitixa Red Cross Society, £IOO. Ross Red Cross Society, £IOO.

Christchurch St. Joseph’s Boys’ Home, Middleton, £150; Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150; Christchurch Deaf Club, £100; Red Cross Society, £150; Cholmondley Children’s Home, £100; Christchurch Unemployed Women’s and Girls’ Committee, £SO; special relief for old-age pensioners and others, £SOO.

Timaru St. John Ambulance Association, £l5O.

Lyttelton Waterside Workers’ Hospital Comfort Fund, £SO. Dunedin Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150; Red Cross Society, £150; Men’s Mission House, £SO; Children’s Rest Home, £SOO- Otago Centre, St. John Ambulance, £150; Roslyn District Nursing Association. £SO; Citizens’ Day Nurserv, £150; Imperial Ex-Servicemen’s Association, relief, £100; special relief for old-age pensioners and others, £SOO.

Invercargill St. John Ambulance Association, £100; special relief foi old-age pensioners and others, £IOO. Greymouth, special relief for oldage pensioners and others, £SO. Westport, special relief for old-age pensioners and others, £75,