New Zealand Nurses' Memorial Fund

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XXII, Issue 3, 1 July 1929, Page 134

New Zealand Nurses' Memorial Fund

We have received the annual report of the fund for the year ending 31st March, 1929.

The number of annuitants has increased from fifteen to eighteen, and temporary help has also been given to nurses who from sickness and other reasons have needed assistance. The fund at the end of the financial year stood at £23,926.

During the year £1,050 had been received m donations and legacies, and the year before a legacy of £1,000 was received, so that the fund seems to be recognised as a worthy obect.

It is very encouraging that the Government subsidy which was given for a year or so when the fund was first started, has now been promised again, though on not quite so generous a scale. Still it will materially aid the allotment of annui-

ties and grants by adding 10/- to the £1 of each disbursement.

The legacies received during the year are £500 from the estate of the late Hunter Shaw, through Mr. E. F. Warren; £250 from the estate of the late Miss S. Charles; £100 from the Lilian Mitchell Fund, these two through the Perpetual Trustees, Estate and Agency Co. To donation from the Dunedin Savings Bank of £200. and contributions from the Nurses' Association, and from the nurses at Hanmer, as already reported.

Nurses, as they go about m private nursing or visiting, can make the fund known, and lead to donations being given.

In our last issue we referred to the loss of the treasurer, Mr. Chamberlain, who had done such good work for the fund for twelve years.