HOSPITAL RADIO FUND

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12507, 24 July 1926, Page 9

HOSPITAL RADIO FUND

TENDERS TO BE CALLED A meeting was held last evening of the committee for the fund for the purchase of a broadcast receiving installation for the patients of the Wellington Hospital. Mr W. Stuart Wilson occupied the chair. It was decided not to approach the Government for a pound for pound subsidy, the committee being of the opinion that the citizens themselves should act independently of the authorities. The hon. secretary, Mr I. M. Levy, reported that Messrs S. Wood and Son had donated two fifty feet masts for tho aerial. The donors had undertaken to hand the masts over prepared and painted ready for erection. The secretary was instructed to write a letter to Messrs Wood and Son expressing hearty appreciation of their gift. A tenders committee was appointed for the purpose of calling for tenders for installing tho broadcast receiving equipment in the main building of the hospital, as the first section of the scheme, comprising Messrs Wilson, Levy, J. H Owen, L. Grouhand, and T. Mcgnnn About 250 beds will be embraced in the first section of the scheme, together with two loud-speak-ers fo rtl.o handstand. The following additional subscriptions have com© to hand: —Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd., £lO 10s; Blundell Bros.. £10; Head Office staff, Bank oif New Zealand, £5 3s 6d; Allan Smith, £5; Hutt and Petonc ’bus drivors, £ls 7s; Dwan Bros., Izard, Weston, Stevenson and Castle, each £3 3s; Girls* Club, Queen Margaret College, £3; Staff Bank of New Soutli Wales, £2 13s 6d; Pctone United Friendly Societies’ Dispensary Board, £2 2s 6d; A. C. Mitchell, £2 2s; W. H. Bailey, £2; W. L. Meek, Aaron Samuels, Bristol Piano Co., “12,” T. Coltman, B. Bailanny, Iv. Woolf, Sybil Nathan. Hubert Nathan, H. S. Pearce, B. and H., Moore, Wilson and Co., Ltd., E. Dymoek, Staff Universal Film Manufacturing Co., each £1 Is; Lady Hector. L. O, Grouhand, Dead Bird. G. E. Fmvnes, A. F. Wiren. Jone 6 and Co., Ltd., Leslie N. Wood and Co., Ltd., each £1; N. A. Fullarton, Sundry, each 15s; Staff Warnea, Stephenson, 12s 6d; E. Berryman. Misses Brandon and Smith, each 10s 6d; Sir Alfred Robin. M.D., W., W. Ballinger, Austin H. Weller, each 10s: Eric H. Gittings, os 6d: N. W. Palmer, 3s; J. 8., N. M. Richards, each 2s 6d; Anonymous, le.