Disabled appeal
A campaign to gather between $150,000 and $200,000 for the Laura Fergusson Trust for disabled people will be launched on March 21. / At a meeting of the trust’s; appeal planning committee; last evening Mr J. Gawthorpe' took over as representative! of the National Fund-Raising! Counsel of Australia which’ will co-ordinate the campaign in conjunction with a large number of voluntary workers from Christchurch. Dr L. C. L. Averill, former chairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board, will act as president of the campaign and Mr G. Norton Francis will be the appeal chairman.
The Laura Fergusson Trust Centre will be built on loans similar to that of the Auckland centre which was the first to be established in New Zealand after the interest taken in the care of disabled persons by Lady Fergusson now Lady Ballantrae.
The residents of the centre generally will be confined to those between the ages of 20 and 40 for whom it is felt not a great deal is being done at present.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33753, 28 January 1975, Page 16
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170Disabled appeal Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33753, 28 January 1975, Page 16
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