ANZAC ART UNION

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1916, Page 7

ANZAC ART UNION

STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, September 21. The Internal Affairs Department has received from Mr. P. A. MeHardy, of IBalmerstoii North, the promoter of the Anzae art union, a statement of accounts in connection therewith, and the following are the particulars:—An art union license was granted lor '200,000 tickets at Is each, but the number sold was 378,720. The gross returns were £IB,S3G, and of this sum £llO3 was paid as commission for the sale of tickets, the other expenses 'being as follows: Advertising £1407, salaries and wages £l3O, sundries £l2O, travelling and show expenses £l3B, printing and stationery £4BB li)s 3d, a total of £330!), leaving £lu,32C available for the Soldiers' Hostel at Palmerston North, for which the money was raised.

The Minister stated to-day that the large expenditure incurred could not be regarded as satisfactory, and compared very unfavorably 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 the result of the expenditure on the Anzan, art union, he added, a limit will be placed on legal expenditure in all similar cases for the future.