THE M'CARTHY HOME
MAINTENANCE GRANT TO BE SOUGHT. The Hospital Beard decided at yesterday’s meeting: "That in regard to the M'Carthy Home at Melling for convalescent children, the hospital head gardener make fortnightly visits for the purpose of advising the men engaged in gardening and looking after the grounds, etc., and that arrangements bo made lor the Government poultry expert to make an early visit with the idea of ostablishing, if considered suitable, a poultry farm on a proper oasis.’’ It was also decided: 1 hat the r. M'Carthy Trustees be approached with a view to obtaining a yearly grant tor the maintenance and upkeep ', I<J M’C’arthv Home for Convalescent Children at Melling. In the event of an annual contribution being received, no fo« for maintenance be charged the children whilst inmates of the institution. Mr C. H. Chapman said he. regarded tho home as an expensive asset Only an average of ten children were Jiere, and it cost £lO6O a year to run. t here vas accommodation for twenty children, and if people would only allow their children to go there they would be bena fited He supported the idea of approaching the M'Carthy Trustees for a maintenance grant. . Mr. J. A. M'Curdy referred to things at* tlie home as being "not too satisfactory.’’ ______
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 231, 24 June 1921, Page 6
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215THE M'CARTHY HOME Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 231, 24 June 1921, Page 6
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