PURCHASES OF RADIUM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20474, 28 January 1930, Page 11

PURCHASES OF RADIUM.

BRITISH TRUST'S ORDERS. \ FURTHER SUPPLIES NEEDED. (•Received January. 27, 6.35 p.m.) British Wireless. RUGBY, Jan. 26. At a meeting of the National Radium Trust held yesterday it was reported that the Radium Commission had arranged for the allocation of the first five grammes of raclium bought by the trust, and that further supplies would be needed to meet impending demands. Accordingly the trust had decided to give instructions for the delivery of a further five grammes. For the purchase of this arrangements had, already been made.

The trust had also decided to exercise its option to buy a four-gramme lot lent to it gratuitously for three months by the Union Miniere of Belgium now in use at the Westminster Hospital.

The National Radium Trust is constituted as follows: —Lord Parmoor, Lord President of the Council (chairman) ; Mr. xVrfhur Greemvoood. Minister of Health; Mr. W. Adamson, Secretary of State for Scotland; Sir Ernest Rutherford, president of the Royal Society; Sir John Rose Bradford, president of the Royal College of Physicians; Lord Moynihan of Leeds, president of the Royal College of Surgeons; Lord Dawson of Penn, president of the Royal Society of Medicine; Mackenzie, chairman of the Central Liaison Committee for Voluntary Hospitals in Scotland; Professor A. H. Burgess, president of the British Medical Association; end Viscount Lee of Farehain.