[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] A GENEROUS GIFT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 38, 13 August 1910, Page 9

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] A GENEROUS GIFT.

KAIUTANE HOSPITAL AND ESTATE. DUNEDIN, 12th August. At a meeting of the Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children to-day a letter was received from ..irs. Harris, conveying an offer, by Mr. Wolf Harris, to give the society the premises and estate at Anderson's Bay, constituting Karitane Baby Hospital, and to effect improvements in connection with the grounds and buildings. The letter continues : — "In making this offer it is assumed that the primary intention of the society, that the institution should serve as a practical teaching centre for matters bearing on the welfare of the mother and child, will be not merely I .maintained, but will be extended and ! further sys'leraatised. It is also hoped

that t-he hospital will always be conducted in the simple, homely way which the society had immediately in view when the institution at Anderson's Bay was founded, and in accordance with the rules and recommendations the society have since passed as to the class of cases to be regarded as eligible for admission. The donor specially desires that, as far as possible, consistent with., doing full justice to babies admitted, the hospital will continue to be so directed and managed that any mother in ordinary circumstances visiting it may feel that almost everything done in the institution could be effectively carried out by herself in her own home after receiving the necessary instruction. As conducing to this end, it is hoped that strict economy and simplicity in regard to buildings, furnishings, appliances, clothing, etc., will be maintained as heretofore, and that treatment will continue to be conducted as far as possible on broad, simple, practical, scientific lines, easily comprehensible by the ordinary mother." It was decided to heartily thank the donor for her handsome gift.