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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19364, 18 September 1934, Page 4

“Gloucester Park.”—The suggestion has been put forward by the Onchunga Borough Council that airangcnicnts should Do made for the Duke of Gloucester to open the area known as Gcddes Basin us a sports ground and motor-racing arena and to rename it Gloucester Park. Could Lead the World. —“I see no reason why Ihc treatment of cancer in New Zealand should not in time he as well organised as anywhere in the world," remarked Dr. 11. M. Moran, an eminent Australian .specialist, at Auckland yesterday. “You might even lead t lie rest, of I lie world in Ibis matter. Now Zealand is a country of moderate, size, ils people are intelligent and well educated and are distributed over not 100 great an area. You have every facility for building up an organisation quite as good as that, of Sweden, which is the best, that exists to-day. Tho Swedes some lime ago adopted tho principle of concentration, bringing eases lo a. central institution at Stockholm for treatment by specialists of llte widest experience. If work were undertaken In New Zealand on these lines 1 do not believe that there would be any great difficulty In providing the radium and other equipment that "would be needed.”