CANCER CAMPAIGN SOCIETY

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27415, 30 July 1954, Page 12

CANCER CAMPAIGN SOCIETY

Loss Of Annual Grant Of £2250 CONFERENCE EXPRESSES CONCERN (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 29. Concern at the discontinuance of a yearly grant by the Medical Research Council to the New Zealand branch of the e British Empire Cancer Campaign Society was expressed at the annual meeting of the branch at Wellington today. The council has informed the branch that it will no longer receive its annual grant of £2250. Dr -P-Lynch told the branch that the Government had previously made «S. esearch Council a grant of £40,000 a year for three years. This grant had now expired, and the council s request for a £65,000 grant a year 7 ears had been met with £55,000 for three years. He said he thought that an appeal to the Minister of Health (Mr J?R. Marshall) for a separate grant for cancer research would be coolly received. An appeal should be made to the council to reconsider its decision not to maxe money available. "We should go to the Medical Research Council first in this matter, for if we go straight to the Government we council may not support us in the future,; said Mr L. A. Bennett, of Christchurch. It we are to carry on research without the aid of a grant f aC j. division of the society will have mt ° ltS capita1 ’ which is ridicu-