CHRISTMAS GIFT TO CHARITY

Southland Times, Issue 23688, 10 December 1938, Page 18

CHRISTMAS GIFT TO CHARITY

ALLOCATION OF ART UNION FUNDS INVERCARGILL TO RECEIVE SUM OF £175 (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 9. 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 £5OOO from alluvial gold art unions conducted during the year. The practice has been for some time to allocate £5OOO 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 a special distribution among the 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) when announcing the grants from the art union funds.

The following is a list of the institutions to receive grants, and the amount allocated to each institution:

National New Zealand Crippled Children 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 Missions, “Whitneydale” Convalescent Home and general,. £250; Flying Angel Mission to Seamen, £100; Auckland Institute for the Care of Backward Children, £200; Red Cross Society (Auckland), £150; 'Auckland Hospital Auxiliary and general, £75; Mental Hospital, £75; Auckland Watersiders’ and Seamen’s Hospital Comforts Fund, £5O; 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, £5O; Henry Brett Memorial Home, £200; Auckland Sailors’ Home, £200; Auckland Miners’ Pensioners’ Association, £75; British Legion New Zealand (inc.), Imperial ex-servicemen and women, £100; Auckland Metropolitan City relief, and special relief not otherwise provided for, £l5O. Thames.—Thames Miners’ Pensioners’ Association, £75; special relief for oldage pensioners and others, £75. Waihi.—Miners’ Pensions Association, £75; special relief for old age pensioners and others, £75. Coromandel.—Coromandel Miners’ and Prospectors’ Association, to assist miner pensioners and others, £75. Tauranga.—St. John Ambulance Association, £lOO. Gisborne.—Special relief for old age pensioners and others, £75.

WANGANUI GRANTS 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. Wellington.—Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150; Red Cross Society, Wellington centre, £150; Wellington Waterside Workers’ Hospital Comforts Fund, £5O; Wellington City Mission, £250; Citizens’ Day Nursery, £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 Benevolent Fund, £100; Wellington Free Ambulance, application supported by the Hon. W. Nash as a relief from petrol and sales tax, £340, paid during the year ended March 31, 1938, £500; Mothers’ ■Helpers’ Society, £100; Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society, £100; St. Joseph’s Orphanage (Upper Hutt), £150; Wellington Deaf Club, A.M.I.C. Mission to Seamen, £100; Wakefield Nursing Division St. John Ambulance, £5O.

Hokitika.—Red Cross Society, £100; Ross Red Cross Society, £lOO. 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; Cholmondeley Children’s Home, £100; Christchurch Unemployed Women’s and Girls’ Committee, £5O; special relief old age pensioners and others, £5OO. Timaru.—St. John Ambulance Association, £l5O. Lyttelton.—Lyttelton Waterside Workers’ Hospital Comforts Fund, £5O. Dunedin.—Society for the Protection of Women and Children, £150; Red Cross Society, £150; Men’s Mission House, £5O; Children’s Rest Home, £500; Otago centre of the St. John Ambulance Association, £150; Roslyn District Nursing Association, £5O; Citizens’ Day Nursery, £150; Imperial Ex-Servicemen’s Association relief, £100; Special relief for old age pensioners and others, £5OO. Invercargill.—St. John Ambulance Association, £100; special relief for old age pensioners and others, £75. Greymouth.—Special relief for old age pensioners and others, £5O. Westport.—Special relief for old age pensioners and others, £75.