APPENDIX IN BOTTLE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 239, 4 July 1940, Page 11

APPENDIX IN BOTTLE

Money For Patriotic Fund

PATIENT’S NOVEL IDEA

Funds for patriotic purposes are being raised throughout New Zealand in many ingenious ways. A motor-ear raffled in Christchurch brought in £6OOO and another in Wellington £-1300. In Christchurch a duck claimed to be practically a non-stop layer, was auctioned for several times its real value. The palm for inventiveness, however, must surely be awarded to a Wellington resident who, when taken to hospital for an appendicitis operation, hit on the novel idea of charging‘visitors who came to see him sixpence to see his appendix reposing in a bottle, the money to go to help the wat effort. The sum raised is not known, but as many of his fellow-workers in the Public Works Department wen t to see him, it is understood that it was quite a tidy amount.

The doctor who performed tlm operation was heard to say when he learned of the scheme that it was the first time he bad ever beard of an appendix being commercialized.