HOSPITAL SATURDAY.

Southland Times, Issue 17595, 6 March 1914, Page 4

HOSPITAL SATURDAY.

Country visitors to town, and the residents of Invercargill and suburbs, will be reminded to-morrow morning as they wend their several ways that the day has arrived when the annual streets collection on behalf of the Southland Hospital and kindred charitable institutions is made. At the present time trade is fairly brisk, and no doubt there will be no inclination among members of the community to curtail their contributions to the Hospital Saturday fund. The present promise is that the country is to enjoy, not merely a continuance of the general prosperity of recent years, but even an extension of it, and this should supply an incentive to liberal giving on the part of a considerable section of the community. At a time when wool is realising high prices, when the frozen meat and dairying industries are being most successfully conducted, when a fairly good harvesting season is being experienced. and when an era of cheap money is being inaugurated—at a time, too, when the investments on the totalisator are “expanding wisibly,” so that there is evidently no lack of funds for speculative purposes—the claims of charities, such as those on behalf of which the Hospital Saturday collection is made, should appeal strongly and even irresistibly (o the imagination, and to the pockets of all who arc in a. position to subscribe. We have a good deal of confidence, therefore, that the Hospital Saturday Committee will not seek in vain for a substantial contribution towards the funds.