CRIPPLED CHILDREN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 89, 13 March 1935, Page 6

CRIPPLED CHILDREN.

ESTATE LEFT IN AUCKLAND. LARGE SUM INVOLVED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. March 12. Hopes that the notional fund for crippled children might receive a sum of approximately £IOO.OOO from the Dadley Estate of Auckland were expressed by Mr C. J. B. Norwood this morning. A leading citizen of Auckland who died about two years ago, Mr 11. S. Dadley, had left the whole of his estate, subject to certain life interests. for the establishment of a home for crippled children at Auckland. Mr Norwood said it was hoped there would be no conflict between this and Lord Ntiffield’s scheme, and that some arrangement for friendly co-operation could be reached. Confirmation of the report that his services would be at the disposal of the proposed organisation for crippled children was given to-day by Dr. H. P. Piekerill, the well-known plastic surgeon. He emphasised, however, that in giving his services he would be doing no more than is done bv any medical man attached in an honorary capacity to a public hospital. Dr. Piekerill has in recent years made a special study of the problem of cleft palates in babies. He sees in the fund now established an opportunity to extend the service to crippled children to include not only those with ina - formed limbs, but also those with malformed mouths, an equally serious, it not in some cases greater, handicap.