DONATIONS MADE TO CHARITY

Southland Times, Issue 23552, 5 July 1938, Page 8

DONATIONS MADE TO CHARITY

PROFITS FROM ART UNIONS PHILANTHROPIC BODIES TO BENEFIT (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 3. From the surplus profit of the £5OOO alluvial gold art unions conducted in New Zealand for the relief of distress, the sum of £8875 is being distributed by the Government as a special allocation to help the work of a number of philanthropic institutions in the Dominion. In announcing the allocation, the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) explained that it was usual for the Government to make two allocations a year, apart from the £5OOO paid into the mayoral relief funds, and the sum to be distributed was the first to be made this year. The following bodies were to benefit to the extent of the sums mentioned from the amount now to be distributed: New Zealand Crippled Children Society, £1000; St. Vincent De Paul Society, superior council, £300; New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing, £3OO. The following centres would benefit as follows:— Auckland.—Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150; Auckland City Mission, £200; ' pen Door Mission, Auckland, £100; Flying Angel Mission to Seamen, £100; Auckland Institute for Care of Backward Children, £150; Red Cross Society, £150; Auckland Hospital Auxiliary and General, £75; mental hospital, £75; Auckland Watersiders’ and Seamen’s Hospital Comforts, £5O; St. Joseph’s Home, Auckland, £300; Auckland Jewish Benevolent Society, £lOO. Thames.—Miners Pensioners’ Association, £75; special relief for oldage pensioners and others, £75. , Waihi.—Waihi Miners Pensioners Association, £75; special relief for oldage pensioners and others, £75. Coromandel.—Coromandel Miners and Prospectors’ Association (to assist miner pensioners and others), £75. Tauranga.—St. John Ambulance Association, £l5O. Gisborne. —Special relief for old-age pensioners and others, £75. Wellington.—Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150; Red Cross Society, £5O; Wellington Waterside Workers’ Hospital Comforts Fund, £5O; Wellington City Mission, £200; Citizens’ Day Nursery, £150; residential nursery, £150; Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream, £300; Smith Family, £300; St. John Ambulance Association, £150; Ewart Hospital Patients’ Association, £75; District Nursing Guild of St. John, £75; Wellington After Care Society, £l5O. Wanganui.—Wanganui Men s Shelter, £5O; Home of Compassion, £75. Palmerston North.—Palmerston North Hospital Auxiliary, £5O. Hastings.—St. John Ambulance Association, £lOO. Napier.—St. John Ambulance Association, £lOO. Christchurch. —Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150; Red Cross Society, £150; special relief for old-age pensioners and others, £500; Christchurch Unemployed Women’s and Girls’ Committee, £5O. Timaru.—St. John Ambulance Association, £2OO. Lyttelton.—Lyttelton Waterside Workers’ Hospital Comforts Fund, £5O. Dunedin.—Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150;. Red Cross Society, £150; special relief for old-age pensioners and others, £300; Men’s Mission House, £5O; Children’s Rest Home, £500; Otago Centre. St. John Ambulance, £150; Roslyn District Nursing Association, £5O; Citizens’ Day Nursery, £l5O. . Invercargill.—Red Cross Society, £150; special relief for old-age pensioners and others, £75. Greymouth.—Special relief for oldage pensioners and others, £5O. Westport.— Special relief for old-age pensioners and others, £75. Mr Parry said the work of the bodies to receive financial help was praiseworthy. Efforts were being made .to make the distribution of funds as wide as possible and in the list were some organizations which did not benefit from the allocation of £9400 made last December.