STEADILY MOUNTING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 56, 8 March 1946, Page 4

STEADILY MOUNTING

FUND FOR MARTON PEACE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (0.C.) Marton, March 7. Marton residents are so keen on having a Peace Memorial Hospital that voluntary subscriptions totalling £2016 10s have already been received by the Mayor, Mr. F. Purnell, who is sponsoring the appeal. At a public meeting at the Druids’ Hall on Wednesday night more than 100 residents of Marton and district were unanimous that they wanted a new building consisting of six medical and surgical beds, plus a small operating theatre to be built on the site off Rira Street already donated to the Wanganui Hospital Board by the Misses J. D. and M. Wilson, of Bulls.

Donations so far received by the Mayor of Marton for the Peace Memorial Hospital Fund are:—Mrs. Duncan Simpson, Marton Sash and Door Co., F. Purnell. Deighton and Purnell, Dr. W. S. R. Dick, Dr. R. A. Church, A. P. Howard, Mr. and Mrs. F. Gorringe, Sutcliffe Bros., Lloyds, Ltd., Alan Marshall, E. O. Pryce, £lOO each: T. Barton, K. W. Deighton, Estate J. A. Bush, Coleman Bros.. T. J. McIlwaine and Son, F. J. Soler, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wheeler, W. B. Langston, W. F. Stevens, £5O each; Albert I,amppo£3O; Mrs. A. P. Howard, Mrs. Alan Marshall, McGruer's, Ltd., G. B. Gregory, Lows, Ltd., F. Brice, £25 each: Mrs. F. Purnell, £2O; Harris and Ladlev. £2l; Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Sladden, £lO 10s; K*m Fowler, A. Gracie, R. A. Wilson, W. J. Mogridge. Wilson and Coombe. J. R. Howard, Alan Powell. Walter Simpson, £lO each: nrivate card party, per Mrs. Gorringe, £6: Miss Flower, A. J. Petrie, C. C. McDonald, Miss Bettv Purnell. £5 each; E. Edmonds, Mr. J. Bending, Mrs. C. L. Bondin’', R H. P, Bending, £2 each; W-' ms