ART UNION PROFITS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1942, Page 4

ART UNION PROFITS

GRANTS TO PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTIONS. MIDWINTER TOTAL OF OVER £9OOO. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Midwinter grants to various charitable and philanthropic institutions, amounting to £9,105, have been made by the Government from the surplus profits of the £5,000 alluvial gold art unions. The grants made, which number 72, range from £750 to £25. Two societies receiving high grants are the New Zealand Cripplied Children’s Society and the Commandery in New Zealand of the Order of St. John, for branches and auxiliary organisations for relief purnoses. The Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Parry) expressed gratification that it had been found possible to make, to institutions in need of financial help, two allocations a year from surplus art union funds exclusive of the £5,000 remitted at regular intervals to the various mayoral funds of the Dominion for the relief of urgent cases of distress. Donations to patriotic funds and subscriptions to the Liberty Loan, Mr Parry said, had affected the profits of recent art unions. Nevertheless it was satisfactory that the chain of grants over a number of years from art union sources remained unbroken, thus allowing deserving bodies to receive support they so much needed.