KARITANE APPEAL
TO-NIGHT'S PUBLIC MEETING. Citizens who respond to the MayOr's invitation to meet at the Town Hall'Con;cert Chamber to hear the plan for- a Karitane Hospital for Wellington discussed will listen to 'powerful% advocates for assistance to .the. Plunket Society's work. Foremost is the Governor-Gen-eral, who has lost no time in expressing his sympathy with the work 'on behalf of women and children, and who will be accompanied by Lady Alice Fergusson. The Prime Minister, the Hon. 'j. G. Co&tes, will speak, and at this meeting will make his first public- speech since he took office as head of the Government. Sir.Trnby King, who is the world's foremost-authority on child welfare, and who has presented the site for tho proposed institution, will explain the project in detail. Dr. J. S. Elliott, chairman of the council of the British Medical Association of JX Tew Zealand, and Dr. D* M. Wilson, medical superintendent of the Wellington Hospital, will 1 speak for their profession; and Mr. E. W. Hunt, acting-president of tho Uoltiry- Club, will represent that body, to whose initiative the inauguration" of the campaign is due. The present cJ'fori. is the outcome of an investigation of a Rotary Club committee which, as tho- result of representations that the riunkct Society's work ni Wellington is handicapped and menaced by financial difficulties, especially in regard to the Wotliercraft Koine, reported couftnning that view, and advising that the society is now an institution of such importance that its claims are paramuunt. It ..formulated a number of recommendations, to Uic effect that a citizens'- movement should be organised for the purpose of raising a fluid of say £25,000. to build and furnish a Karitane Hospital jn Wellington and pay. off the mortgage of £3000. on the society's premises in Kent luiTiice, and hiving cxnmincd the site offered by Sir 'fruby Kin" and found it, in the opinion of competent judges, eminently suitable for the purpose, advises the Citizens' Committee to accept the gift. ■Tho business of to-night's meelinc, after hearing the proposal explained, will be to establish the Citizens' Committee, and after that, an energetic campaign to raise the fund will bo. set on foot, covering fho whole of the Wellington' Health district. **^ !
KARITANE APPEAL
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 130, 5 June 1925, Page 7
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