OTAGO HOSPITALS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19987, 20 December 1934, Page 8

OTAGO HOSPITALS

A GENEROUS GIFT By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN, December 19. A particularly generous gift to hospitals in Otago and Southland has been made by Mr John Edmond, of Melbourne, who has fbrwarded to Messrs Duncan and MacGregor, the sum of £3OO to be distributed among 12 hospitals. This money the donor desires should be used for the purpose of purchasing or going towards the purchase of some article whicn will be the means of alleviating pain and helping suffering humanity. The 12 hospitals which will participate in the distribution of the money, £25 each, are—South Otago Hospital (Balclutha), Ranfurly Hospital (Ranfurly), Vincent Hospital (Clyde), Cromwell Hospital (Cromwell), Frankton Hospital (Queenstown), Tuapeka Hospital (Lawrence), Tapanui Hospital (Tapanui), Wallace Fiord Hospital (Riverton), Seddon Memorial Hospital (Gore), Port Chalmers Cottage Hospital (Port Chalmers). Kaitangata Hospital (Kaitangata) and Middlemarch Hospital (Middlemarch). In addition to his gift of £3OO, Mr Edmond has sent forward in accordance with a practice which he has observed for a number of years, an amount which is to be distributed between the patients arid staffs respectively of the St. Helens and Batchelor Hospitals as a special Christmas present. Mr Edmond was formerly a wellknown commercial traveller in Otago and Southland on behalf of the firm of John Edmond Ltd.