CANCER RESEARCH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22126, 4 June 1935, Page 11

CANCER RESEARCH

KING'S JUBILEE GIFT CONTRIBUTIONS NEEDED APPEAL BY DR. J. S. ELLIOTT An appeal to New Zealanders to make a strenuous endeavour to furnish the Dominion's full quota of the King's Silver Jubilee Gift for cancer research is made by Dr. J. S. Elliott, president of the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign. Dr. Elliott refers to the King's acceptance of the gift, and to His Majesty's desire that the money should be given in New Zealand to help solve the overwhelming problem of cancer. "By his Royal act we may honour the King as a man and as all that is best in our nation," states Dr. Elliott. "We can give him now, but never again, a tribute and a birthday gift that will please him, and in the way that he says will please him, and not one penny of the money will leave New Zealand. "Wo can fly flags for the King, burn our coloured lights, and sing his anthem and give him lip-loyaltv, but what is our loyalty worth in current coin, and by measure of slight personal sacrifice?" continues Dr. Elliott. "Are there 50,000 or 100,000 men and women in New Zealand who cannot give even a shilling to the King's Jubilee Gift? I think there may be, but why do we others delay? Why do our minds so sluggishly let such an opportunity pass by for ever? Is New Zealand to bring up the rear of all self-governing Dominions in the King's great Commonwealth of freo peoples? Surely not, when any post office will receive for to-morrow, or the next days, a token of our loyalty and gratitude. "A shilling given with a thankful mind and a full heart will be as welcome from the many as a larger sum given by the favoured few. Now is tho acceptable time. Duty and privilege. Remember the King, and help those unable to help themselves, tho most helpless and often the most hopeless, the many stricken with tho most dread of all diseases —cancer. "New Zealand's Jubilee Gift to the King is not a collection for a charity to make piteous appeals and stand with collection-boxes at street corners." states Dr. Elliott. "It is not the Government's responsibility. It is not mine, nor is it the duty of any organisation—it belongs to every individual of his desire and free will. "I have heard people say that the loyalty of New Zealanders depends on how much they can get by way of borrowed money and free scope for a market for their exports, and that royalty and the throne have little meaning for New Zealanders except as a pleasant and attractive sentiment or a showy pageantry. This may be so in regard to a few people in New Zealand, but I think it is untrue as regards the vast majority. We shall know for certain, however, when the final response is made here to New Zealand's Jubilee Gift to the King, when we are asked to give, as well as to roceive."