HOSPITAL AID WORK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19677, 1 July 1927, Page 7

HOSPITAL AID WORK.

ASSISTANCE TO PATIENTS. PROPOSED UNIFYING BODY. A meeting has been arranged with the object of forming a.i auxiliary council to embrace the activities of existing societies working in connection with the Auckland Public Hospital. The idea is' to foster a bond of sympathy between the public, the hospital patients, the staff and tha authorities. By this means it is hoped to inaugurate an organisation to which people can apply who are willing to make gifts or lend assistance on behalf of the hospital. Those interested in the movement include Mr. V 7. Wallace, chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, Dr. C. E. Maguire, medical superintendent, Jar. Oliver Nicholson, Mrs. E. H. Davis, the Rev. Jasper Calder, Mr. W. Coltman, and leading officials of the different organisations working in the city. It is proposed to discuss at the meeting the best way to raise funds and to set up a council to organise voluntary aid work. ' It is hoped that all the easting societies will be represented in the council. From the proposed council committees will be elected to deal with the various activities. There will be one to provide oars to take patients home from the hospital, one to provide cars for tak ing convalescents at the hospital for drives, one to take charge of the depot from which gifts in kinds will be given to the patients, one to look into cases of distress and assist the families of patients, and one to form a sewing guild to make warm bed-jackets, children's garments and flannel shirts for patients in need of them. Mr. Oliver Nicholson will preside at the meeting which will be held in the Hospital Board's rooms. Kitchener Street, next Friday.