PLEA FOR ART UNIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1078, 16 September 1930, Page 1

PLEA FOR ART UNIONS

MR- RANSOM RECEIVES DEPUTATION

g °VERNMENT’S supervision

Press Associaf ion WELLINGTON, Today, 'deputation representing business & and sports bodies in the comWaited 011 tlle Acting-Prime the Hon. E. A. Ransom, this lie ant * advanced reasons for “ntinuancc! of art unions, lot ilr - Ransom said lie did 6 8ard t B6 to ox 4>re.ss any opinion in The ,lle morals of art unions. J «nt ™ 1 011 of whether the Govern--5g the* 8 i U3 tified or not in continu'ha p issue of permits had given e Was' 6 | rDrnfcllt muck concern, and s rton« 813,1 ’t° know the opinions of fja trno S fS tlons the community. It Ut. th^ere had been abuses in the t there’ was one notorious case s 2sonn 25,000 was collected and 'tiaatin " a 3 s P e nt, so that the or--00 in whose benefit it was arTbe receive <l nothing. resent Government was en,io »s wifh t ?., keep a check on t' ll art 'east Kn the oh -i ect of seeing that tot tn o per cent - of the proceeds tc 6Ss the light quarter. It was '"’uld tC to °’ that the Government liects » e mto full consideration the Mr. Ba or the art union. ‘btj g f~ ns °m promised to place the tare „ ons ot the deputation be- - me Government.