Multiple sclerosis appeal
PA WellingtonThe Multiple Sclerosis • Society will hold its flrjj national appeal this year between August 10 and 16, f - The target for the appMi t > will be $lOO,OOO, of whldtM' $45,000 will pay for tha cost of the fund-raising ef, > fort. ; The society's president ‘ ' (Mrs Esme Tombleson)said the money would bo'v used to set up a national | secretariat, to promote fe<- ® search into the ' disease, ■ : and, to carry on patienfiß support facilities. ' She estimated that there 1 were between 2000 aniO 3000 sufferers of the dis*’t ease in New Zealand. j . The disease attacks th®lj - insulation around theji nerve fibres, causing scars?’ to develop. Once the scact 1 L has developed on the? - nerve fibre no message’, from the brain can ge(* L . through. j L The fund-raising wilL; L not be done door-to-dooM ■; Funds will be solicited** 1 through advertising. ,j ’?
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Press, 8 May 1980, Page 4
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