ART UNIONS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21079, 4 July 1938, Page 8

ART UNIONS

Allocation of Surplus Profits t £8875 For Deserving Causes Timaru Ambulance Granted £2OO > | By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND. July 3. | From the surplus profits of the £5OOO , * alluvial gold art unions conducted in I New Zealand for the relief of distress, the sum of £8875 is being distributed by the Government as a special alloca- ; tion to help the work of a number of , philanthropic institutions in the Doi minion. 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 each 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— I £ ' N.Z. Crippled Children’s Society 1000 I St. Vincent de Paul Society, Superior Council 300 I N.Z. League for the Hard of Hearing 300 Total £l6OO Auckland i Society for the Protection of Women and Children .. .. 150 ! Auckland City Mission 200. Open Door Mission, Auckland.. 100 i Flying Angel Mission to Seamen 100 . Auckland Institute for the Care of Backward Children .. .. 150 Red Cross Society 150 Auckland Hospital Auxiliary .. 75 Auckland Mental Hospital .... 75 Auckland Watersiders’ and Sea- ' men’s Hospital Comforts Fund 50 St. Joseph’s Home. Auckland .. 300 | Auckland Jewish Benevolent Society 100 1 Thames Thames Miners Pensioners’ Association 75 Special relief Old Age Pensioners and others 75 Waih 5 Waihi Miners Pensioners' Association 75 Special relief Old Age Pensioners and others 75 Coromandel Coromandel Miners’ and Prospectors’ Association (to assist miner pensioners and others) 75 Tauranga | St. John Ambulance Association 150 Gisborne Special relief Old Age Pensioners and others 75 Wellington Society for the Protection of Women ..ad Children .. .. 150 Red Cross Jociety 150 Wellington Waterside Workers’ Hospital Comforts Fund .. 50 Wellington City Mission 200 Citizens’ Day Nursery IfO Residential Nursery 150 Homes of Compassion, Island Bay I and Silverstream 300 ; Smith Family 300 St. John Ambulance Association 150 . Ewart Hospital Patients’ As- I sociation 75 District Nursing Guild of .'t. i John 75 | Wellington After Care Society .. 150 Wanganui Wanganui Men’s Shelter 50 Home of Compassion 75 Palmerston North Palmerston North Hospital Auxiliary 50 Hastings St. John Ambulance /Association 100 Napier St. John Ambulance Association 100 Christchurch Society for the Protection of Women and Children .. . . 150 Red Cross Society 150 Special Relief Old Age Pensioners and others 500 Christchurch Unemployed Women’s ana Girls’ Committee 50 Timai u St. John Ambulance Association 200 Lyttelton Lyttelton Waterside Workers’ Hospital Comforts Fund .. 50 Dunedin Society for the Protection of Women and Children 150 Red Cross Society 150 Special Relief, Old Age Pensioners and others 300 Men’s Mission House 50 Children’s Rost Home 500 Otago Centre. St. John Ambulance 150 Roslyn District Nursing Association 50 Citizens’ Day Nursery 150 Invercargill Red Cross Society 150 Special Relief Old Age Pensioners and others 75 Grey mouth Special Relief Old Age Pensioners and others 50 Westport Special Relief Old Age Pensioners and others 75 Mr Parry "aid the work of the bodies to receive financial help was praiseworthy. Efforts were being made to make the di J -ibution of funds as wide as possible, and in the list were some organsiations which did not benefit from the alloc -tion of £5400 made last December.