CRIPPLED CHILDREN

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 June 1936, Page 5

CRIPPLED CHILDREN

NUFFIELD GIFT NOT USED.

[per press association.]

INVERCARGILL, June 29. That the Nuffield gift of £60,000 to aid the crippled children of New Zealand was not giving the benefit it should was the view expressed by Mr. J. Hargest, M.P., for- Awarna, at the annual meeting of the Southland Branch pt the New Zealand Crippled Society to-night. The fund was held in trust, he said, and the income, owing to the low rate of interest, was insufficient when distributed over all the branches of society, to provide treatment for even the most urgent cases. “In my opinion,” said Mr. Hargesta “Lord Nuffield made the gift with the \ intention that it should be used to •• help the children of to-day, not that ' it should go into storage. ’ The interest earned at present is totally inadequate. -Now is the time that it should be used, when we are trying to alleviate the suffering of children who were not aided in the past. The money will become stagnant if it is to be so closely guarded, and we should petition the Trustees. The retiring President, Mr. S. McDonald explained that a conference is to be held next month with the purpose of establishing co-ordination bel ween the public hospitals, the De-

partment of Health, the Education Department and the Crippled Children Society, and which would no doubt settle all difficulties.