ART UNIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1929, Page 5

ART UNIONS

GOI-D SPECIE PRIZES?

DEPUTATION TO PRIME -MINISTER

(By Telegraph—Press Association). NAPIER, May 9. The Napier Thirty Thousand Club today approached the Prime Minister 'Sir Joseph "Ward) with a view to inducing him to endeavour to make it legal to offer gold specie as. prizes for \rt Unions. r llie speakers recognised that the holding of Art Unions with gold prizes was stopped by Parliament because of extravagant organisation consuming most of the profit, but in Napier the Club paid all expenses and distributed the profits among sports bodies, or used them for effecting improvements iinout the town. Sir Joseph Ward replied that if all ' rt Unions were conducted as in Napier there would probably not Have been any need for prohibiting gold specie prizes, but in many cases the organisation had been so extravagant and the distribution of tickets so indiscriminate that the profits were very small: ,Fori tljisbreason Parliament put t -ston to it altogether. He did not know if it would be possible to restore gold prizes, as once a right was taken away it was not the easiest thing to have it “resurrected. < The matter was under revision, but if any change were made it would he necessary that the administration, be in responsible hands •md the Art IJmpn confined to a small area. . I; ' > v ."