A GENEROUS GIFT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22835, 20 March 1936, Page 8

A GENEROUS GIFT

The announcement is made this morning of the gift of £IOOO by Mr S. Saltzman, -a generous and publicspirited citizen, to the trustees of the Dunedin Methodist Central Mission to he applied towards the cost of erecting an administrative block at (he mission’s health camp and rest home tit Company’s Bay. The value of the provision that is made for affording the opportunity of rest among peaceful and pleasant surroundings to those who are wearied through incessant toil, worn with anxiety, or weakened by indisposition is beyond question. And equally valuable, as experience lias proved, is the provision that is made for securing that children who are not of robust constitution and children who come from poor homes shall be enabled to spend a few weeks in the year in a camp in which, under skilled supervision, they shall enjoy the advantage of plenty of fresh air, suitable food in abundance, and healthful recreation. It is a service of this kind which the Central Mission is rendering to the community at the camp established by it on Otago

Peninsula. That the mission has been hampered in its important activities by the lack of an administrative block will be obvious. The handsome sum which Mr Saltzman, of whose practical sympathy with humanitarian movements convincing proof has been given on more than one recent occasion, lias presented to the Central Mission will constitute a substantial contribution to the object of repairing this lack and of placing the mission in the possession of, as he himself describes it, an “ absolutely essential ” building.