THE HOSPITAL SHIP

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 20 May 1915, Page 5

THE HOSPITAL SHIP

HEADY KESPONSE TO APPEAL

MAHENO TO BE FITTEp' OUT,

PROBABLY READY IN THREE WEEKKS.

SOME HANDSOME GIFTS

Br mauutt~*Ußg AssdbiAxid*. &_ 1 •■- • AtfGELA&D, May 19 nifiS^lfV* a publiG Meeting tonight, the Governor expressed extrpml generosity was being too greatly taxed' but before the appeal had been published M hours be had received indications of support from all over the Domiiiion ?fn<s? fJ already received a donation of £1000 from the Union Steamship Company. He proposed to leave for Wellington at the-earliest possible moment to devote his energies to the task of i seeing that the Maheno, when she did ' depart was one of the best equipped hospital ships ever despatched. "I have not been allowed to go on active service," added His Excellency, "but in •this way I will be able to do my little bit." (Applause.) The Hon. Dr. Collins, of the New Zealand Medical Corps, will go in charge of the hospital ship to the Mediterranean, and it is probable that the medical staff for the shin and the hospitals to be established will include many of the best known surgeons in this country. Altogether, 100 nurses are to be sent, and 25 of them are to go by the Sydney boat this week. The rest will follow later. It is hoped, and indeed, expected, that the hosnitai ship will be fitted and ready to sail in three weeks.

DTJNEDIN, May 19. The directors of the Onion Steamship Company decided at a meeting-to-day to vote £1000 in response to the appeal the Goy™; f~ &* equin _ .-« »t n. .hosmtnl ship; is to be provided by the Dominion, and for the supply 5f comforts for sick and wounded soldiers.

Messrs Speight and Co. have donated £000 m response to the Governor's appeal for funds for;a. hosnitai ship arid comforts for" wduiided soldiers.

WANGAiffli, May 19.. Big efforts are being, made to .raisel funds for the hospital -ship and for comforts for our wounded. . * ...

The St. John Ambulance. Associationis organising a strtet collection,. an~<j the Rugby Union is devoting, r the proceeds of the Taranaki-Wanganui match to the same purpose. ...-•• Local medical men to-day subscribed £100 for the equipment of a hospital* bed in the Mediterranean, «r wherever required.