AUSTRALIANS’ GIFT
TO ENGLISH HOSPITAL PERMITS CLAIM TO BIG DONATION (Australian Press Association.) London, January 1. West Australian visitors to London, Mr. and Mrs. McNess, have given a cheque for £633, enabling the Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway, to claim a gift of £35,000 to erect a block for private beds. It was a last-minute race against time. The officials had to collect £35,000 before the dawn of 1929 in order to claim a similar gift from an anonymous donor. They made strenuous efforts to obtain the remaining few hundred pounds before midnight, and were despairing when Mr. McNess walked in and promised to make up the deficit. He was an entire stranger to the hospital and declined to give his address.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 84, 3 January 1929, Page 9
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121AUSTRALIANS’ GIFT Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 84, 3 January 1929, Page 9
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