THE ‘COT’ FUND.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XIX, 9 November 1895, Page 599

THE ‘COT’ FUND.

I hear that the * cat' will cost £25 a year, and the initial expense, that is the bedding and cot, will be about £6. Therefore we have to raise £3l the first year. Can we do it? I have promises from Cousins Muriel, Agnes, Lou, and Ida, and also that £ll had offered me at first. I hope to raise a little myself, and now appeal to any readers of the Graphic if they will help the Cousins’ Cot Fund to maintain a deserving and destitute sick child for one year at the Auckland Hospital, where it can have proper food, medicine, and nursing. Any donations can be sent to the Lady Editor, New Zealand Graphic, Shortland-street, Auckland, and they will be duly acknowledged in the Graphic Collecting cards will be printed as soon as a sufficient number of cousins apply for them.—COUSIN Kate I have received the following satisfactory and courteous letter : * Madam,—l am directed by the Hospital and Charitable Aid B >ard to thank you, and, through you, the Graphic cousins, for the proposal to furnish and endow a cot in the Auckland Hospital for one destitute child, and in reply, to say that if the proposal can be carried into effect, tbe Board most cordially approves of it and gives it its official sanction. With regard to yonr queries as to cost, etc., I am to say : — (1) That the sum of £25 a year (paid in quarterly sums of £6 2s 6d at the office of the Board) be accepted so long as the Government continues the subsidy of 24s in the £ on voluntary contributions for charit able aid. (2) That the probable cost of a cot and furniture would be £6. (3) That tbe cot, which must be of iron, may be purchased subject to the approval of the Board, as soon as convenient to the Cousins, and by them. (4) That the child to occupy tbe cot from time to time must be sent to the Bospital subject in all respects to the rules for the admission of patients. I send you a copy of the Hospital rules for your information. —I am, madam, yours faithfully, H. N. Garland, Secretary. '