SICK AND WOUNDED

Southland Times, Issue 17533, 22 September 1915, Page 6

SICK AND WOUNDED

PUBLIC SERVANTS' GENEROSITY. USE OP PATRIOTIC FUNDS. (Special to the TimesO WELLINGTON, Sept. 20. An appeal for financial assistance for the equipment of convalescent camps for wounded soldiers was made in the House of Representatives to-night by the Minister of Public Health (the HonG. W. Russell). He said that the establishment of these camps was a fairly, | costly undertaking, and heavy expense | would be entailed in increasing the plant at the sanatoria at Rotorua and Hanmer. For the moneys required he did not propose to appeal to the Treasurer for a share of the loan, but he appealed with confidence to the committees controlling the patriotic funds for assistance. An appeal had been made that day to the public servants of New Zealand, and the latter had resolved to contribute £SOO for expenditure by the Attorney T general and the Minister of Public Health for the benefit of soldiers. There were those who said that the work of caring for wounded soldiers was the Government’s duty. It was the Government’s work, and the Government would see that no sick or wounded man suffered for'lack of proper care and treatment: but the Government had a right to ask that patriotic committees should give for this purpose some of the moneys the public had subscribed for the benefit of wounded men.