HOME FOR INCURABLES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1536, 7 August 1901, Page 62

HOME FOR INCURABLES

HOSPITAL TRUSTEES TO ADMIN-

ISTER THE FUND.

A conference took place »on the 30th ult. between the Wellington Hospi. tal Trustees on the one hand and a committee representing the ladies who organ, ised the Home for Incurables oazaar on the other.

Dr Newman, acting as spokesman for th© ladies, said the latter were prepared to hand over the amount realised from the bazaar (£2330) to be expended in the erection of a home for incurables, and for administrative purposes in connection with that home. They anticipated that with the Government subsidy of 245, an amount of £6350 would be available.

Mr Webb, chairman of the Hospital Trustees, asked who was go ins: to provide for the upkeep P It was apparently going to be a big affair. Dr Newman said that would necessarily be a matter for the governing trustees. It was understood that the Government intended to take the matter up and giv e a grant in aid to this‘and to similar institutions. A number of cases at present in the hospital w r ould be removed into the Home for Incurables. The ladies would like the building to be well made, and if it absorbed the whole amount available, the ladies would put forth another effort to provide for the

furnishing. Several of those who had given subscriptions had made it a stipulation that the fund was to be administered by the Hospital Trustees. Ii was unlikely that Wellington would be called upon to support the incurables front other districts, because already movements were being made in places like Wanganui to establish homes. The question having been raised as taj» whether hospital funds could be used for maintaining homes for incurables, the opinion of Mr Quick, solicitor, was read. Mr Quick said as the Wellington hospital had been established for “the reimf oif the sick,” the definition was broad enough to cover the chronic sick; but cane must be taken to exclude chronic incurables who did not come under tne category “sick.”

The members of the Board uresani thereupon resolved themselves into a special meeting, and on the motion of Mr Kirk it was decided, “That tha trustees accept the donation of the committee of the bazaar for the Home for Incurables under the terms of the deed af gift laid dowg by the trustees of the funds.”

Dr Newman, on hehalf of the committee, thanked the trustees for their action, and asked them to cxxmmiirricai* with the ladies in case of any shortness of funds.

Mr Kirk said the next difficulty would be to find a site. Two or three acres of land would be required.

Dr Newman said this difficulty would require to be overcome in the same way that others had been by' the ladies of the bazaar committee.

The Mayor s:*£.d there were city re* serves adjacent to the hospital grounds. They would have to see what could bo done with them. Mr C. M. Luke said the thanks of the community were due to the ladies who had organised and carried through tho bazaar and raised the funds. It was one of the most laudable enterprises that had ever been carried to a successful conclusion in th e history of the colony.