QUEEN OF COLLECTORS
Compliment to Mrs. Tuohy Airs Margaret Tuohy, of Hastings, who is reputed to have collected some £5OOO at various times for charitable purposes, and who took a leading share In canvassing subscriptions towards the building of the Hastings Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital soon after the Great War, was the central figure in a little side-ceremony at the opening of the hospital extensions by the Alinister of Health, Sir Alexander Young, yesterday afternoon. After the opening ceremony bad been performed, the Afiuister and Mrs Tuohy were led to a spot in the hospital gardens where preparations had been made for the planting of a tree in commemoration of Airs Tuohy’s work both lor the hospital and- for charitable objects generally. Sir . Alexander held the tree while Airs Tuohy, who, as Mr G. A. Aladdison said of her, had been successful in imprisoning every spare shilling in the district, shovelled the earth around it. The spade was afterwards autographed by the Minister and other speakers at the ceremony, ami presented to Airs Tuohy. The tree is a weeping-willow.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 163, 26 June 1935, Page 9
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