GISBORNE FLAG APPEAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19336, 28 May 1937, Page 13

GISBORNE FLAG APPEAL

MEMORIAL FUND BENEFIT

HON P. FRASER’S MESSAGE

In connection with the street sale ol flags to lie started to-morrow by the Gisborne Thirty-Thousand Club to benefit the King George V memorial fund, tho following telegram was received today by the Mayor, Dr. D. W. Coleman, M.P., from the Acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser:

“I desire to wish you and all those working with you every success in connection with to-morrow’s appeal on behalf of - tho King George national memorial fund. It should be a fitting climax to a good work already well done.”

MEDICAL VIEWPOINT

CHILDREN’S CAMPS

OBJECTIVE RECOMMENDED

(Special to the Herald.) WELLINGTON, this day. The importance of children’s health camps from a medical viewpoint was emphasised by Dr. T. I). M. Stout, president. of the New Zealand branch of flm British Mpdical Association, in a statement supplementing tho appeal for tho King George V national memorial fund. “The medical profession has always deeply appreciated and profoundly admired the intelligent and beneficient interest. that lias been taken in medical science and in tbo health of the. community by members of our beloved Royal Family,” said Dr. Stout. .... , “The King Edward VII hospital fund is one concrete illustration of the active and practical interest in medicine taken bv the grandfather of our present king. “The late King George V’s epithet of ‘Father of his people,’ was most adequately earned by a lifetime of humble and never-ending service on behalf of all Ins subjects, and be .was ever anxious to help in every way any project having) as its aim the improvement in the health and welfare of his people and especially of the children. Help and Encottragement “Nothing, I am certain, would have given him more pleasure than to give his help and encouragement in the institution of camps, throughout his Empire, for the benefit of the health and with it the real happiness of tho young children. It is our duty, therefore, in deeply honouring his name, and showing our appreciation of his beneficient. reign over the Empire, to further, .with every effort tho memorial which would have given him such heartfelt pleasure if ho were still alive. “I can assure the people of New Zealand that the medical profession unanimously recommends the objective selected as a memorial in this country. We have watched with the greatest interest and pleasure the great improvements in the health of the children who have had the privilege of attending the camps during the last few years. Not only has there been improvement in health, which can be measured by tbe increase in weight, and obviously improved wellbeing and vitality, but there is, maybe even more important, tho training of the children in the great and all important details of healthy living and a well chosen and balanced diet. The education also of the weakly child to appreciate the ofien air life always must remain as a constant corrective to any later tendency to ill health. “This education will be steadily diffused throughout the families of these children and so throughout the community. “The children’s health camps are perhaps one of the most important steps in preventive medicine so far taken hv the community.”