HOSPITAL SHIP MARAMA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16041, 6 October 1915, Page 5

HOSPITAL SHIP MARAMA

FUNDS FOR EQUIPMENT.

LORD LIVERPOOL'S APEAL. . [BT «tE«UIH— OWH OOBMSPOKDWT.] -. Hajdxtok, Tuesday. " SraiXDao at » banquet at Hamilton' today His Excellency the Earl of Liverpool referred to the commissioning and ™«hmg of the second hospital ship. When he said the Maheno was folly equipped, it was found that the amount ffl£2£? f, h3d _ J been Shortly afterwards the New Zealanders in England decided to equip a hospital S^S°v m " 1 5 ,U ? 65 ' for the accommodatilT New Zealand mounded who np till the tome had been scattered throughll t Hn. Var l? ls bospitals in the British Isles. The New Zealanders in England subscribed very largely to this. and Lord Plunket president of the fund, cabled au appeal to His Excellency fop assistance. Having a substantial amount in hand from V h « .Maheno fund, he considered himself justified in forwarding a sum to this kindred object. Then came the reques? tor a second • hospital ship. Toward?this ?k» ti ? • mUmd t0 ask the People of the Dominion to subscribe, though of course he would not refuse monev sent to him for this purpose. The difficulty XL «£ m^!!; tin s. th eni to give, but to SS em { ™™P™g- When the second request came, therefore, he placed the matter before the leading Mayors of £ £2Su*!°l. "£ 7" full - v "««S that the people who had contributed towards the fcaneno were fully with him in helpSg the Walton-on-Thame, hospital scheme .* He had asked the Mayors of the four leading cities to put any money thev had to spare from other funds towards'making up the amount he had given to the Walton hospital. An J but £6000 of that amount had been made un. He was not going to appeal for further funds, because it was necessary to preserve the resource of the country in case the war extended that further Sew Zealand hospitals Trould have to be established, and the Walton hostel would require to be SfflSg extended It might 5? *" constitutional £L^ y I' 110 did not believe the people should be entirely dependent on S?. % f v° r ««*«»&* It was desirggLy human S™P»«>y should be fostered in a case like the present. Germany was an example of the machinerv--1 made State, where the pSiple depended entirely upon the State* in eyervftin? The result was that when one cog of the wheel went wrong the whole machU was KL°tL3 ££?' He >** last week ££?m Pd ***«« that th Maheno £onld reach England about October 13 a , e ' "mam there about a week and would return to New Zealand about December JJL The ship «L tho «"8 u "conditioned by that recommissioned. < *