COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

Press, Volume C, Issue 29672, 16 November 1961, Page 20

COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

Public Appeal For Funds (N.Z. Press Association) WEIUNGTON, Nov. 14. The first phase of the publie appeal for funds to be made by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons will be launched on Wednesday in New Zealand and In Australia. The South Island, with headquarters at Dunedin, will begin the New Zealand section of the appeal The Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) will record a message tomorrow to be broadcast in Australia at 12 30 pan. on Thursday with a message from the over-all president of the appeal. Lord Casey. Both messages will be broadcast from Wellington about 6.45 pm. on Thursday. The college is the only body primarily concerned with the standard of surgery in Australia and New Zealand and with the training of future surgeons to reach this standard.

New Zealand's undertaking in the £300.000 appeal Is £40.000 The chairman of the Wellington Appeal Committee (Sir John Rott) said tonight that all money raised in the Dominion would be spent in New Zealand on improved teaching facilities, bursaries and research. He said Wellington would not be far behind the South Island In getting its appeal started.

It is hoped the area targets realised will be South Island. £16.000: and Wellington and Auckland, £12.000 each.

Several important donations had been received already, said Sir John Hott. The surgeons themselves had given more than £BOOO, Sir Charles Norwood. of Wellington. £lOOO, the J. R. McKenzie Trust. £l5OO, and a Wellington businessman £5OO.

He believed the South Island was starting with an anonymous gift of £2OOO from a well known Dunedin citizen.