£4500 DISTRIBUTED

Chronicle (Levin), 12 June 1947, Page 5

£4500 DISTRIBUTED

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J. R, McKfinzje Trust Pakes Disbursements !

Bv Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, Jupe 12. ! The board of trustees of tfie: J. R. McKenzie Gharitable anfi1 Educational Trust yesterday agreed to disbursements to -various objects totalling £4500. The , -largest ailocations were a§ follows:' Royal New Zealand Society for the' Health of Women an/d; OMldren (including £158 for Maori! Flunket nurses) £1150, N.Z.R.S.A. £1000, advisory board of .Federa-cio-n of Health Oa-mps £60.0 i Gholmondeley Children's Home (Christchurch) £2,80, Auckland! Insti-tute for tfie Care pf Back-1 ward Children £180, Wellington After-care Society £170, Occupauion Oentre for Sub-nqrmal Children (.Christchurch) £150, and1 Occupation Oentre for Subrnormal Children (Dunedin) £150. Among the genertal objects and; various chur.ch an,d .charitable organisations in the main centtes, including the Missions to Seamen, Apostleship .of the Sea,, the British Sailors' Society, .ptc., the Boy Scouts and Boys' Briga.de, recejve amounts yarying from £50 to £20. Last year £4840 was distribjiited of the £100,000 of tfie Trust, wfiich Mr. McKenzie founded in 1940, tfie fioard fias • distribujted £35,600. The administrator, Mr. E, A. R. Jones, stafed that a priyate Bill had been dr,afted to enable a variaticn t.o b.e made tfie Trust .deed in order that ailocations might be made maiiy deservifig objects wfiich were at present. exclnded from participation. Tn acc.ordance with the Trust deed, Mr. W. B- Tennent, G,overnor of tfie 52 nd Disfrict of : Rotary, w.as appoiiited to the board. Nominated fiy the Chief .Justice, Mr. W. J. Sim, M.C., H.C„ was appointed tq the vac.apcy caused by the deatfi of Mr. O- HWeston, K.C. Mr. Jphn S. Parton was re-elected chairman. of the board.