Cancer group’s research bill up $23,000

Press, 21 August 1979, Page 19

Cancer group’s research bill up $23,000

Research by the Cancer Society’s CanterburyWestland division cost more than $85,000 last year — $23,000 more than in 1977. The division’s annual report was presented at its annual meeting in Christchurch this week. It said that income for the last

financial year rose by more than $16,000 to $64,696. Bequests were a record, totalling $150,213. This resulted in the division’s accumulated funds increasing by $114,482 to $357,897. Sister C. Consedine. a member of the society and one of the Nurse Maude

Association’s district cancer nurses, pressed for the division’s greater involvement with matters of welfare.

That was likely in the next six months, said the division’s chairman (Mr G. W. Holland). He said one likely area of involvement would be home care for terminal and p o s t-operative patients, particularly those who had undergone radiation treatment or chemotherapy. This would probably be expensive, and the division was committed to very extensive research. He was confident that the public would help contribute the necessary funds. The society was negotiating for permanent office space in the Canterbury Manufactuers’ Association building planned for its Cambridge Terrace site. This would give it a permanent headquarters by February next year, and “herald a new era in the activities of the society.” Mr Holland was reelected chairman and there were only a few minor changes to the division’s three committees.