GRANTS FOR CHARITY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 150, 28 June 1943, Page 1

GRANTS FOR CHARITY.

SURPLUS ART UNION PROFITS (P.A.) Wellington, June 23. The sum of £9lBO is to be paid bv the Government during the next few days as mid-winter grants to a number of charitable and philanthropic institutions from the surplus profits of the £5OOO alluvial gold art unions. The grants, totalling 74, range from £750 to £5O. The New Zealand Crippled Children’s Society and Commandery in New Zealand of the Order of St. John is each to receive £750, The Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. W. E. Parry, said the grants to institutions were made apart from the £5OOO paid into the Mayoral distress funds of the Dominion from the profits of each of the national art unions held. Collections for patriotic and other funds of community interest had lessened the return from art unions, and he regretted that the grants made to institutions had to be readjusted to meet the reduction. Grants of £250 and over are as follow: Crippled Children’s Society, £750; St. Vincent de Paul Society Superior Council. £250; St. Joseph’s Home. £300; Smith Family, Wellington, £250; Homes of Compassion at Island Bay and Silverstream. £300; Children’s Rest Home, Dunedin, £250; Leper Nursing Sisters’ Rest Home, Wellington, £250; Commandcry in New Zealand of the Order of St. John for branches and subsidiary organisations for relief purposes, “ £750; and New Zealand Returned Services’ Association for the relief of ex-imperial servicemen and their dependents, £250.