A DESERVING APPEAL.

Evening Star, Issue 19942, 11 August 1928, Page 2

A DESERVING APPEAL.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—May I ask the hospitality of your columns with reference to an appeal now being made for funds to ujstal a radio receiving set in the ialmorston Sanatorium? The matter was mentioned publicly some weeks ago, but, owing to other appeals then before your readers, was not pressed at that time. Since the other appeals have presumably been satisfied those who are interested in tho Palmerston radio fund feel this to bo an opportune time to state the matter to your readers. The Barnett Radio Supplies has most generously installed a Brem-ner-Tully 8-vulvo set in the sanatorium, relying, as docs tho writer of this letter, upon tho cost being met by this public appeal. The firm has added to its generosity by a rebate of £2U, as tho attached list of donations will show, and has been of appreciable assistance in making the project successful. The Red Cross Society has promised a donation not shown in the list, and several private gentlemen have made personal promises to the writer. This still leaves, however, a substantial amount to be collected by an appeal. The approximate cost of wiring tho ■seventy outside dormitories, extra headphones for inmates unable to afford their own, fitting plugs to the nurses’ quarters, patients’ diningroom, domestics’ quarters, and costs incidental to buying and installing the set, will be in the neighbourhood of £l5O. This will give the institution a firstclass receiving set under proper and efficient management.' The attached list of donations received to date will show how much has been collected. One feels that very little need he said of tho deserving character of this a, peal. The sanatorium patients are burdened enough by tho disease that makes them inmates; the burden should not bo made heavier by added isolation from the pleasures and amenities of social life. Radio is a necessity in this case, not a luxury; a necessity that will make their burden less hard to be borne, and, according to the medical superintendent, do muc. toward the necessary brightness of outlook that will assist toward an eventual cure.—l am, etc., Winn D. More, Minister, St. Andrew Street Church of Christ. August 10. AMOUNTS RECEIVED. Barnett Radio Supplies ••• £2O 0 0 Returned Soldiers’ Assn. 2 0 0 Mrs Charlotte Bowler, F. 1 Heather Burns, and T, W. Dobio, each ... 10 0 “Waiwera South,” Mrs Henderson (South Dunedin), Mrs Thompson (Ravcnsbourno), Mrs Gregg, and Mrs Hull (Moeraki), each 010 0“C. 8.,” “ A Listener-in,” the Hymans (Highcliff road), and Mrs Hull (Moeraki), each ... 06 0 Aunt Toddie, ‘‘Listener-in," Joyce Halliday Taylor, “ Another Brother Bill,” Edgar Beadle, Brenda and Robert, and Ray Arnold, each 0 2 6 Willie Blackwood and “ Anonymous,” each ... 0 2 0 Jean M'Millon, Wilfred Bunting, Y.M.C.A. Boy, and Bertha Thompson (Morniugton), each 0 10