CANCER CAMPAIGN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 158, 6 July 1935, Page 11

CANCER CAMPAIGN.

WORK IN NEW ZEAI«AND. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) » WELLINGTON, this day. Nearly 5000 cancer patients in New Zealand have been under the supervision of the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society, said Dr. J. E. Elliott in his presidential address at the annual meeting of the Wellington division yesterday. He added that the investigation went on intensively throughout the world to-day and not the least in the British Empire, and at least a partial solution of the problem, according to many authorities, could not be much longer delayed. Pieces now were being gradually put together as in a huge jig-saw puzzle.

"We support a very active cancer research laboratory in Duuedin," continued Dr. Elliott. "Our director of research, Dr. A. M. Begg, in his biannual report now in hand, shows the work in various directions— some of it of positive and much at present necessarily of negative value. The records of our clinio are in good order and await the work of a statistical research scholar soon to be appointed. There will _be additional expenditure for clerical assistance, and also for a new applicator, containing radium for special work. A costly apparatus for deep X-ray treatment is also required. A radium emanation plant on a large scale is in regular use."

TRAVIS' TRUST FUNDS.

ADMINISTRATION CRITICISED.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The Wellington liead office of the New Zealand branch of the Cancer Campaign Society states:—"The trustee of the Travis Bequest has not yet subscribed as requested to New Zealand's jubilee gift for cancer research. He has not reasonably met the criticism and the complaint of the judge who recently inquired into the administration of the trust. His selection pi a local advisory committee of his otfn choice does not meet the judge's comment on the failure of the trustee to appoint additional trustees. "The offer of the trustee to pay from the Travis Trust the salary of a statistical research officer is a comparatively* small item, and the offer to consider favourably assisting in the purchase of deep-therapy and X-ray equipment is unnecessary, for this will be provided by the hospital boards of the four large centres in the ordinary established way by a local levy and Government subsidy. As the Travis Trust is intended for the benefit of the whole Dominion, the Chris tchurch Hospital has no more claim than the Wellington, Dunedin and Auckland hospitals, but the Christchurch Hospital has received preferential treatment. "It might also be pertinent to inquire in the public interest what amount of the income of the gravis Trust has been expended by the trustee in New Zealand in terms of the trust in the investigation, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis in the European and Maori population of this Dominion and also the cost, if any, of the administration of the Travis Bequest by the trustee."