ANZAC ART UNION

Nelson Evening Mail, 22 September 1916, Page 3

ANZAC ART UNION

HEAVY EXPENSES.

(United Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Sept. 21. The Internal Affairs Department has received from Mr P- A._ McHardy of Palmerston North, promoter of the Anzac Art Union, a statement of accounts in connection therewith, and the iollowine are particulars:—The art union license granted! was for 200,000 tickets at Is each, but the number sold' was 376,7AJ The itoss return was £18,836. Of this amount £1163 was paid; as commission for the sale of tickets, and the other expenses were as follows :• —Advertising £1467. salaries and wages £l3O, sundries £li2o, travelling andl show expenses £l3B printing and) stat onery £4BB 19s 3d?'total £3509. This left £ls 326 available for a v soldiers hostel' at Palmerston North, for which the money was ra, The Minister for Internal' Affairs {Hon G. W. Russell) stated to-day that the laro-e expenditure incurred could not ■be' regardled as satisfactory, and. compared veiy unfavourably with that oi other art uniCns .which had' been licensed. For instance he said, the raffle ot a house at Danneyirke realised &I&1, and the expenditure was only £45. As a result of the expenditure on, the Amwc Art Union, he added, a limit will 'be placed on. the legal expenditure m aU' similar casesi for the .future.