RADIUM TREATMENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 October 1924, Page 12

RADIUM TREATMENT.

ASSISTANT FOR CHRISTCHURCH LABORATORY. ANONYMOUS DONOR’S OFFER. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 14. Not content with his munificent gift of £4OOO to the Radium Fund, an anonymous donor has shown further interest in the provision in .Christchurch of the most modern equipment for treatment of cancer by bringing before the Hospital Board proposals regardiV.g a laboratory assistant whom the donor feels should be a first-class man. In a letter received by the board, he says:“In his last letter, Dr Lazarus Barlow told me he had written you about his laboratory assistant, whom he thinks admirably suited to be the skilled mechanician under Dr Fenwick; this type of man is a necessity, and unless he has the knowledge might damage not only expensive apparatus, but patients also. Dr Barlow, as you are probably aware, is now retiring from his work at the Middlesex Hospital, and, in addition to continuing his active connection with the cancer com-

mittee of the Ministry of Health and the British Empire cancer campaign, will be devoting hiself to ‘summarising’ the results of his work during past years. ' “I understand Dr Barlow is writing to your chairman about his assistant, Mr C. Hines. Personally, I think you ar ? . ver y lucky at. the opportunity, arising through Dr. Barlow’s retirement from the hospital, in getting such a man. “I feel it is such poor policy to go to the expense of a good outfit' and a good man and not have a thoroughly good mechanician, that I would-be prepared, if necessary, to give you a donation towards his yearly. salary for a three years’ contract, which,* I presume, you would have to offer him. A 3 far as his passage is concerned, I think the shipping companies would make you a reduction in the fare. If you cannot arrange this, I would personally see what I could do in this matter.”