OPEN-AIR HOME.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 127, 4 July 1914, Page 12

OPEN-AIR HOME.

MEETING OF COMMITTEE. A meeting of the Executive Committee conducting the campaign for raising funds for the establishment of open-air homes for children was held yesterday afternoon, when there were present Mr J. A. Flesher (chairman), Sister Rochfort, Mrs Fountain, Mrs Anderson, Miss Meadows, Bishop Grimes, Messrs P. Hallenstein, D. Hawker, and Dr. Fenwick.

Dr. Fenwick said the chief object of the meeting was to call attention to the Country Committee 'b desire that lecturers should go round the country districts arousing interest in the object of the open-air homes. The trouble was that if lecturers were sent it was difficult to organise sufficiently large attendances. The Country Committee wanted the Executive Committee to pay the out-of-pocket expenses of the lecturers, and he thought the committee might do so, since it would probably not amount to more than £l2.

Some discussion then took place on the difficulty of getting people who were able as well as willing to go into the country and give addresses on the subject, and it was suggested that if owners of automobiles were approached they would be quite ready to give the use of their cars to lecturers, and so help to save oxpense. Mr D Hamber proposed that the Mayor should be asked to forward Mr Greenwood's offer of 20 acres at Amberley to the Hospital Board, and ask if the board approved the site. The site, he said, was an excellent one, only three-quarters of a mile from the railway, siding, with plenty of water and a good milk supply available. The site was not only desirable for children actually affected witli tuberculosis, but also for delicate < < contact' > children. Mr Hamber's motion was carried and Dr. Fenwick said it was important that the board should know whether the home was to be for the benefit of children suffering f rom tuberculosis or those who might become patients. He also wanted to know if the clergy were doing anything to help the establishment of the home.

On the motion of Dr. Fenwick it was decided, "That the Country Committee, in conjunction with "the local authority concerned, be instructed to make arrangements for the holding of meetings in the various districts, and for persons to deliver lectures or addresses at such meetings, with power to pay the out-of-pocket expenses of such lecturers when necessary." It was also decided lb ask Dr. Blackmore to meet the Executive Committee ne.vt Saturday afternoon.