GIFT OF £3000

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22430, 28 May 1936, Page 10

GIFT OF £3OOO

SANATORIUM BLOCK ' MR. SALTZMAN'S GENEROStfY [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] INVERCARGILL. Wednesdh* Advice of the gift of £3OOO for tte erection of an administrative 4®* treatment block at the Waipiata Sm®* torium has been received by tW Sanatorium Committee. The donor i* Mr. Samuel Saltzman, a well-knoirtt Dunedin business man. • The construction of this block to be postponed in 1931 owing to*w depression. Plans ' and specifications had been prepared but the commJ> tee's finances would not permit erection. "This is a magnificent girt* J 10 ®" ing at a time when the block <*. urgently needed, and when the mittee's expenditure on shelters «?. left it # financially embarrassed, ®®_ the secretary of the committee, Pryde, when announcing the gift. ,'j. will be able to proceed almost ately with the erection of the bloc? for Mr. Saltzman is making the money available at once. Mr. Saltzman « most public-spirited citizien, for otne institutions have recently recei substantial gifts from 'him."

The gift by Mr. Saltzman to _ Waitaki Hospital Board of & children's open-air block, estimated . cost £ISOO, was announced, earn® this month. Last October he 2 . £IOOO to the Dunedin Hospital for W purchase of instruments for the man theatre of the eye, ear andwuw" ward, while in .the past other ms. tions have benefited substantially his philanthropy.