KARITANE BONDS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 44, 16 November 1925, Page 8

KARITANE BONDS

SALE BEGINS TO-DAY

To-day is the first day of the Boy Scouts’ combined effort on behalf of the Karitane Hospital Fund, for which they have undertaken to sell £5OOO worth of bonds, the whole proceeds of which will go to the fund. So far only a small minority of the public have actually contributed to the fund, and if the response is anything like adequate there should be no great difficulty in disposing of all these important little documents. The fund now stands at £13,000, and the addition of £5OOO will bring the total measurably near the desired £25,000, and relieve the Appeal Committee of some of the anxiety under which it now labours. The residential areas of the city and suburbs will be canvassed during the week, and on Saturday it is planned to have 300 Scouts deliver a general attack upon the city proper SIR TRUBY KING’S THANKS TO THE BOY SCOUTS. The following letter has been addressed by Sir Truby King to the secretary of the Wellington Boy Scouts’ Association ;— Dear Sir, —The information that the Boy Scouts of Wellington intend to take an active part in ensuring the provision of the Karitane Home is more gratifying to the Plunket Society and myself than we can possibly express. During the many years that I have been connected with this work, we have had most generous help and encouragement .from earnest men and women all over the Dominion, but this is the only instance in which the boys of the community have come forward to help us in what we are convinced will prove, in the long run, the most far-reaching and patriotic of all forms of community work. The most urgent need of our country at the present time is to make sure that its young manhood (and womanhood) would not reveal 50 per cent, of comparative weaklings if a test were applied in the future, as was done in the Great War, but would give young New Zealanders the proud distinction of being proved quite unmatched in the whole world as regards health, strength, and all-round fitness and capability. I understand the aim of the Boy Scouts is to collect enough money to put up a “Boy Scouts’ Ward” in our new Karitane Home, or “College of Maternal and Juvenile Efficiency.” We naturally wish them every possible success in their effort. Personally, as general president of the Plunket Society, I wish to thank them most heartily for coming forward in the\iick of time so as to enable us to make a start with the buildings early in the New Year. They may rest assured that the Boy Scouts of the' future will be proud of the tangible evidence at the Karitane Home of the eminently practical and patriotic work done by their predecessors in Wellington at the close of 1925. Yours sincerely, (Sgd.) TRUBY KING. Dr. W. E. Herbert has written as follows:—

To the Scoutmasters, Wellington Boy Scouts’ Association, Wellington. Dear Scoutmasters, —AS one who has always been interested in health matters, and particularly in the welfare of the Plunket Society, I have learned with the greatest satisfaction of the decision of the Boy Scouts to help us in our appeal for a Karitane Home. Wellington is the only city in New Zealand that has not such a home, and the thought that the boys of Wellington intend to try and make good what we, their elders, have neglected to do in the past, appeals to me as a very fine and noble example. Rest assured that you can help no finer organisation. I wish you the best of luck, arid would offer you my sincere thanks for taking this splendid lead. Yours sincerelv, (Sgd.) W. E. HERBERT.