PURCHASE OF RADIUM.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 112, 14 May 1929, Page 7

PURCHASE OF RADIUM.

» INVERCARGILL'S MONEY. REQUEST TO PRIME MINISTER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. A deputation from the Hospital Board placed before the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, the question of the amount of £3000 raised in Invercargill some years ago for the purchase °of radium, but unused for that purpose. Sir Louis Barnett said the money was raised in answer to an appeal from Dunedin for the purpose of supplying the Dunedin base hospital with radium. It was understood that Southland people would he treated on the same .basis as Dunedin, people, and that emanation outfits could be sent to Invercargill if patients could not go to Dunedin.° The . Invercargill people later said the money was to be used as a fund for the expenses of people going to Dunedin for treatment. Very, few people had come to Dunedin, and the trustees themselves were dissatisfied with the way the money was beim* .expended. The fund had grown to £4400, and the trustees were prepared to hand it over, on condition that the radium purchased be handed back to Invercargill at any future time if required there. Sir Joseph Ward said he would confer with the Invercargill Hospital Board, and he had no doubt he would he able to give effect to the request for permission to purchase radium.