AIRMEN'S OFFER

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 240, 10 October 1944, Page 6

AIRMEN'S OFFER

TO ADOPT CHILD PATIENT

" CONSTRUCTIVE PROJECT"

An offer by a fighter squadron of the R.N.Z.A.F. to sponsor the interest of a child patient in the Wilson Home for Crippled Children was accepted by the Auckland Hospital Board at a meeting last night. Writing on behalf of the squadron, Flight-Sergeant B. C. Edgecombe drew attention to the adoption as the mascot of another fighter squadron of a Christchurch girl, Gloria Lyons, who was confined to the Christchurch Public Hospital with a spinal complaint, and of her subsequent improvement. The writer added: "I do not consider that the project requires any justification on my part, but. I would like to say that, as our job of work in the war is necessarily of a destructive character, it is the wish of the squadron members to offset this, to some extent at least, by perpetrating a project actively constructive, and it is our hope that the benefits so accrued should be of a permanent nature, as indeed they will be if our efforts can assist a child back to health and happiness." ;r, ■■■■" The -board decided to leave the selection .of> a suitable child in the hands of the .matron.