NEW ZEALAND NURSES’ MEMORIAL FUND

Otago Witness, Issue 3516, 2 August 1921, Page 23

NEW ZEALAND NURSES’ MEMORIAL FUND

The fourth annual repent of the committee of ihe Xew Zealand Nurses’ Memorial Fund contains the following clauses: — The capital sum, all of which is invested in New Zealand War Loan, has been increased by £SOO. and now stands at £9750, with a cash balance in hand of £525, making a total increase in our assets of £542 over the figures of the previous rear. Relief has bvon granted to the amount of £439, or £lls m excess of the year before. Of this, £35 was provided by the Feriiinan Fund, alluded to in our last annual report, as being devoted specially to win* nurses, and this fund is now exha listed. Nine nurses received annuities during the year (a tenth annuitant has since been add d , and the amount, of annuities to \vhi< h the fund is now committed very nearly equals the total income from investment.-*. 11l is to lu* y‘ grci tod that. Hue number of annual subscribers (about 40) is so small. Tho principal donations rere-ved during the year are a ; follow*: ••-£IOO from the Muses Rattray. Dunedin; £7O front the Otngo Universal \ 1 £49 fre.-m the* Nelson Nurses’ Slokncss and Emergency Fund; and £IOO remitted from iDo Wellington branch, Rung d<- nations and subset ip ! one. fr«-m that distri* t. The I'nblie d’rnstee is still unable to distribute th'* charitable br-pietes of the late Mr .bones MfiKay. •-f Well ington, from which the fund should receive £7OOO or £0000; but be has remitted to your committee £250 on account of income. When the capital sum becomes available a much larger amount of relief can, of course, be afforded.