BUCHANAN HOME.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8187, 31 July 1912, Page 11

BUCHANAN HOME.

EDUCATION BOARD APPRECIATION,

. On the motion of tho chairman (Mr E. Lee) tho Wellington Education Board 'yesterday resolved:

That this hoard congratulates its oldest member, Mr W. C. Buchanan, M.P., op the opening of the Buchanan Home tor Incurables built by him in Greytown. The board heartily wishes him years of health in which ho may realise the benefit conferred upon the Dominion by his generous gift, and by his very long and valuable services as a member of this board, Mr J. Kebbell, in seconding the motion, said he hoped the donor would Hve ,to eee the value of the institution.

Mr J. G. \V. Aitken said he appreciat. «d Mi Buchanan’s great goodness of heart in making such a gift to Greytown. He was sure there was nothing done in the whole of the donor’s, life that would give him more satisfaction or more pleasure in looking back upon than the gift ho had bestowed. Mr Buchanan would have the pleasure of knowing that there were men and women who were being sheltered in comfortable, Christian-like manner. ' Mr A. W.-Hogg'trusted the building Mr Buchanan had erected would be the means of doing good. practical service, and be the means of relieving distress. On the other hand. Mr Buchanan’s action would have a very useful 'effect, because ho had shown an example to other wealthy colonists. It had been a subject of comment very frequently, especially in this part of New Zealand, that there had been very few donations of this nature. They ■ had had men and women leaving considerable wealth without donating anything to deserving institutions. This had been one of their peat blemishes. He trusted that Mr Buchanan’s example would not be lost eight of by others in a position to assist the community, Mr Buchanan, in acknowledging the motion, said that after a membership extending over nearly thirty years he felt very much their kind expressions of appreciation of what he had endeavoured to do in presenting this old home to the district in which he had lived now for nearly forty years. Ifthere was anything that would odd to his satisfaction in making the gift, it was the manner in which it was accepted on Thursday last’ by such a largo number of people, and in the fact that it had so happened that the first inmate of the new building was one of the best working men he had known in all his experience in the whole of New Zealand. This man had fallen into sad times through an incurable disease. ■ Of course, the Greytown Home was not the only one in the district, as there was that one made possible through the generosity khown by the late Mr Carter, who was one of the' oldest Wairarapa settlers: and there was also in Masterton the Solway Home. But as it happened, the man ho had mentioned was the first occupant of the Buchanan Home. He again thanked them for the kind way in which they had expressed appreciation of what he had been able to do.