TREATMENT OF INCURABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 116, 17 May 1907, Page 5

TREATMENT OF INCURABLES.

[BT TELEGRAPH. — PJUESS ASSOCIATION} DUNEDIN, 16th May. Tho Beaovolent Trustees forwarded the following resolution to the Charitable Aid Board to-day- — "Tha{; tho trustees impress on thn members of tho Charitable Aid Bosrd the nrgent necessity for orecting. without further dolay, a hospital for incurables, as their sad experience proves _it is undesirable that patients suffering from disease of malignant character should be located in the benevolent restitution with those who aro suffering from -minor diseases, or from the physical disabilities «f old age." Mr. Arkla was against a hospital being orectad. Ho thought it a mistake to multiply these institutions. Tho timo might coino whon the Government would not be able to subsidise, and the whole expense would fall on the local bodies. Mr. Batcholor did not see any 'difficulty in providing a room for incurables on the, grounds of tho institution. A oeparate institution would cost a lot moro. On tho motion of Mr. T. Mackenzie, M.H.R., it was resolved that a reply bo cent that urgency had not beon made clear, and that when tli6 matter required consideration the board would deal with it.

King Edward is a diligent collector of walking-sticks, matchboxen, caricatures, and model ships. His collection of canes numbers nearly 2000, and most of thjtfo have remarkable association!*. A stick very highly priced _ by the King it one used by Qucon Victoria in her closing years. It is made from a portion of the oak in whose boughs Coarlet 11. concealed himsolf after his defeat by Crom.\rell i Woresster.