RADIUM APPEAL

Southland Times, Issue 19291, 9 July 1924, Page 5

RADIUM APPEAL

MEETING OF COMMITTEE. ARRANGEMENTS WELL FORWARD. A meeting called in connection with the forthcoming Radium Appeal Week was held in the St. John Ambulance Brigade Rooms last evening, Mr T. Hide being in the chair. There was a large attendance, including several medical men, while apologies were received from Rev. J. A. Lush, Miss Birss and Messrs McPherson and Cooper. A very satisfactory state of progress was reported on, all country centres being enthusiastically in favour of the appeal. Dr. MeCaw said that Mr R. A. Anderson had donated £5O to the fund. He also reported that Mataura had been visited and good support had been promised there. Dr. S. Brown said that the appeal arrangements were well in hand at Winton, and Mrs Hanan reported that a public meeting was to be called in Riverton next week. Dr. Torrance, of the Bluff, had arranged to canvass Bluff, Ocean Beach and Stewart Island. The following centres have also promised all assistance:—Gore, Morton Mains, Wyndham, Riversdale, Lumsden, Otautau, Nightcaps, Mossburn, Parawa, Garston, Athol, Lowther and Queenstown. Mesdames Robb and Robertson were appointed convenors for South Invercargill and it was arranged that Mrs Hide should arrange and advertise a meeting for the folding of the appeal circulars. The clergy throughout Southland are to be circularised, requesting them to bring the appeal before their congregations, and, subject to the approval of the Invercargill Secondry School Principals circulars are to be issued to all country pupils. The date of the next meeting was left in the hands of the Chairman and the secretary. GOVERNMENT SUSIDY. In reply to an inquiry from the Southland Hospital Board in regard to whether the Department would grant a subsidy of £1 to £1 in respect of the £2500 which it is proposed to raise in Southland for the purchase of radium, the Department has advised that it has communicated with the Otago Hospital Board with a view to ascertaining what amount of radium would require to be purchased and what other expenditure would be required for the purchase of equipment. It is intended that the amount raised in Southland, together with the Government subsidy, should be used by the Southland Hospital Board to purchase radium to be loaned to the Dunedin Institute.