NEW ZEALAND BEQUEST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22835, 20 March 1936, Page 15

NEW ZEALAND BEQUEST

" APPRECIATION IN PERTH (From Our Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, February 22, The bequest of £20,000 made by the late Miss Jane Chalmers, of Ashburton, to the Perth City Infirmary is much appreciated. Mr John C. Cameron, solicitor, the secretary of the infirmary, in an interview, said: “It is the best information regarding the infirmary I have received for many years. It will come as a tonic to all the directors, as it is to me.” Mr Cameron spoke of a pleasant coincidence in connection with the intimation of the bequest. “In the late autumn of last year,” he said, “ the directors appealed to the public for a sum of £20,000, but the response was not too good, although we got in a few thousands. “ The object of that appeal was to alter and enlarge the outpatients’ department at £12,000, erecting a new operating theatre, £6OOO, and altering and enlarging the kitchen department, £2OOO, a total of £20,000. At the moment we are again making a special appeal for money. Last year we treated over 8000 patients, and the number is increasing mouth by mouth.”