ART UNION PROFITS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 2, 3 July 1939, Page 11

ART UNION PROFITS

£8600 IN GRANTS

RECOGNITION OF SERVICES

Grants amounting to £8600 have been made by the Government from the surplus art union fund to a number of philanthropic, charitable, and kindred institutions. The fund from which the grants are made is formed from the accumulated balances of the profits after the regular- distribution-of £5000 from each alluvial gold art union to the various Mayoral funds for the relief of distress. The names of the various institutions to benefit, with the sum allocated to each, are as follows:— New Zealand Crippled Children Society, £1000; St. Vincent de Paul Society, £300; National Committee Apostleship of the Sea, £250; New i Zealand League for Hard of Hearing— Auckland £200, Wellington £100, Dunedin £100, Christchurch £100;j Society for Protection of Women, and Children—Auckland £250, Wellington £100, Christchurch £100, Dunedin £100; Auckland City Mission, £200; Wellington City Mission, £200; Flying Angel Mission to Seamen, Auckland, £100; Auckland Institute'for the Care of Backward Children, £150; Wellington After Care Society, £150; Auckland Hospital Auxiliary including Wilson Home and Epsom Infirmary, £150, Mental Hospital Branch, £75;; Wellington Hospital Ladies' Auxiliary,. £75; Palmerston North Hospital Auxiliary, £50; Red Cross Society—Auck-! land £150, Wellington £150, Christchurch £150, Dunedin £150; Auckland Watersiders' and Seamen's Hospital Comforts Fund, £50; Wellington i Waterside Workers' Hospital Comforts Fund, £50; Lyttelton Waterside Work-; ers' Hospital Comforts Fund, £50;Dis-j charged Prisoners Aid Society—Auckland £100, Wellington £100; Citizens' Day Nursery—Wellington £150, Dunedin £150; Residential Nursery, Wellington, £150;. Homes of Compassion, Island Bay and Silverstream, £300; Ewart Hospital Patients' Association, £75; Wanganui, Men's Shelter, £50; Home of Compassion, Wanganui, £75; Christchurch Unemployed Women's and Girls' Committee, £50; Men's Mission House, Dunedin, £50; Children's Rest Home, JDunedin, . £ 250; Mothers Helpers' Association, Wanganui, £50; Roslyn District Nursing Association, £50; St. Joseph's Home, Auckland, £300;- Auckland Adult Deaf Society, £50; Wellington Deaf Club, £50; Christchurch • Deaf Club, £50; Cholmondeley Children's Home, Christchurch, £ 100; Greymouth Red Cross Society, £100; Leper Nursing Sisters' Rest Home, £250; ' Nazareth House, Sy.denham, £150; Home of the Good Shepherd, -Mount Magdala, Lincoln Road, £.150; Commandery in New Zealand , Order of. St. John for. branches and subsidiary organisations for relief purposes,. £1000; Auckland miners' pensioners, £75; Thames miners' pensioners, £f 5; Waihi miners' pensioners, £7&; Coromandel miners' pensioners, £75. Total, £8600. SERVICE TO COMMUNITY. The Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon.- W..E, Parry) said on Saturday -that an investigation into the work- and j 'needs. of the institutions which had sought the. assistance now given showed that they were-render-ing a splendid service sto the community., : ..: ,■■-;. 1 "The calls made upon these funds," said -the Minister, "are as numerous ;as ; .are. the circumstances, sometimes varied,: for which -the.money is required, -I ieel, that-good use is made qf-the-money allocated. Often letters appreciating-: the; .grants made' show that the/funds have been the means of tiding an institution over a difficult period in its work." . ~■ Mr. Parry .expressed the hope that he would be able to make a somewhat similar allocation towards the end q£ the year. ■■. ■... . .. . ,