Public Opinion

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 8

Public Opinion

MR. POLSON’S PROPOSALS

Sir, —Air Polson’s proposals and your criticism of them, provide much food for thought and will require much sifting and sorting out before finality is reached.

Alay I throw out a hint to our Chamber of Commerce and that is they should invite Air Polson to Wanganui, where the various details may be thrashed out and we may b* able to get to some workable basis in dealing with, this most important matter. INTERESTED The Development League has already decided to invite Air Polson to Wanganui. Editor “Chronicle”

AN ALFRED FRIPP MEMORIAL

Sir, —Only one form of memorial seems possible for Sir Alfred Fripp. His whole life can be summed up in the single lovely phrase, “All sick persons and young children.” Therefore to perpetuate his memory best, let us do something to perpetuate that life’s work. Though all the world was his parish, children came first. So it is proposed that all who knew him, or knew of him—and who did not? —thall be invited to subscribe, according to their means and inclination, to a Afemorial Fund to be devoted to the development and extension of the Children’s Department of Guy’s Hospital, for the purpose of endowing cots, building a new ward, or in such other manner as the Governors of the Hospital and Sir Alfred’s own relatives may decide. No tribute would have pleased him more. Indeed, during his last days anxiety about the Children’s Department was his only care. The trustees of the fund will be Lord Lonsdale, G.C.V.0., Wilfred Godfrey, Esq., and myself. Subscriptions may be sent to and will bo gratefully acknowledged by the honorary secretary. The “Sir Alfred Fripp” Afemorial Fund, ' 145 Cheapside, EC2. These may be large or small, like the people whom he befrineded. Two characteristic denations have already been received by us —a cheque for a thousand pounds from those truly practical philanthropists, The Froth Blowers and a sum of ten shillings raised by farthings among the children of a County Council school in one of the poorest districts of London. The total sum subscribed will be handed intact to the Governors of Guy’s Hospital, with which Sir Alfred was closely associated as a student, surgeon and governor for over 40 years, to be devoted by them to one or more of the projects mentioned above. Your obedient servant, lAN HAY BEITH, (signed) London, W.I. Alar ch 21, 1930.