PLAN FOR RESEARCH

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 14 July 1936, Page 8

PLAN FOR RESEARCH

FIGHT AGAINST DISEASE. USE OF TRAVIS BEQUEST. CHRISTCHURCH, July 13. A scheme providing for scholarships and the equipment of clinics and laboratories for research into the causes and. cure for cancer and tuberculosis has been evolved by Che trustees of the Travis bequest, and the proposals a.re to be submitted to the Supreme Cccrt for approval. , Mr William Henry Travis, who died at Christchurch on June 21, 1927, directed in his will that the income from the residue of his estate, after the payment of personal bequests, should be devoted to combating those two diseases. The value of the estate on Juno 30, 1935, was £57,625 18s lOd and the accumulated income at that date was £12,016 4s Gd. The will directed that the income was not to be confined to scholarships, but might be used also for subsidising medical practitioners in private practice. Mr Travis suggested that tbe Mayor of the city, the senior Magistrate, and a member of the honorary medical staff of the hospital should be ail administrative body, and the trustees of the estate, Messrs O. A . Bergh and H. Pearce, now desire- to appoint as trustees of the income Sir Hugh Acland, chairman of the Canterbury-Marlborough-Nelson Westland Division of the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society, Mr John Mac Gibbon, and Dr C. T. ‘Hand Newton. These proposed trustees, however, leel that they cannot accept the trust until the intention of the testator is more clearly deThe proposed scheme allows for the appointment of two medical practitioners and one business man as the \\ . H. Travis Income Trust Board. it includes the provision of buildings, laboratories, apparatus, and the adequate maintenance of them, together with the employment of the necessary staff ; the giving of assistance to those actually suffering from either of the diseases; and the establishment ot scholarships for New Zealand students going out of the Dominion to continue their studies. It is suggested in the scheme that the board would subscribe to laboratories conducted by metropolitan hospitals, to the Otago Medical School, and to the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society. It is also desired to provide text books and journals for the Ota o o Medical School or hospitals. A student who gains a scholarship and studies in England or Europe will be bound to return to New Zealand when the term of the scholarship expires and continue Ins work for a period in a laboratory in tins country.