AHZAC ART UNION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17280, 22 September 1916, Page 5

AHZAC ART UNION.

RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE

[Per Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, September 21

The Internal Affairs Department has received from Mr P. A. M’Hardy, of Palmerston North, promoter of the Aneao Art Union, a statement of accounts in connection therewith. The following are particulars:—Art union license granted was fqr 200,000 tickets at Is each, but the number sold was 376,720. The'gross returns were £18,836. From this sum the following payments were made (shillings and pence omitted) :■?—

Commission for sale of tickets . 1,163 Advertising . './ 1,467 Salaries and wages . , \ 130 Sundries 120 Travelling and show expenses 133 Printing .and stationery . . 488 Total . . . - . £3,509 Leaving £15,326 available for tho soldiers’ hostel at Palmerston North, for which the money was raised. The Minister cf Internal Affairs (the Hon G. W. Russell) stated to-day that the large expenditure iiymrrsa could not be regarded as satisfactory, and compared very unfavourably with that of other art unions which had been licensed. For instance, he said, the raffle of a house at Dannevirke realised £7237, and the expenditure was only £45. As a result of the expenditure oh the Anzac Art Union, he added, a limit will’be placed on the legal expenditure in all similar cases for tho future.