GENEROUS GIFTS.
Two Anonymous Donations Worth £24.000. THE TIGHT WITH CANCER. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 11. Two donors have each presented the London Hospital with one gTamme of radium. Both desire to remain anonymous. One of them, a7>out three years auo, gave a sum of £50.000 for the purpose of assisting research and investigation into the cause and origin of disease of every kind. This also was given anonymouMv and from it has s|.run- the "Freedom Research Fund of London Hospital. Th* donor has added a sum of £13,000 to his gift of a gramme of radium, and tlu* i= to be invested and the income spent in running the radium laboratory for the production of radon and of radon needles. The radium and the endowment are to form a trust to be known as the Freedom Radium Trust. The other donor has already given more than £70.000 to the London Hospital. It was a mere coincidence that the two gift>. each of one gramme of radium, together worth £24.000, were received simultaneously on Saturday bv the London Hospital. * The anonymou» donors are unknown to each other.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 36, 12 February 1929, Page 7
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188GENEROUS GIFTS. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 36, 12 February 1929, Page 7
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