MAGNIFICENT OFFER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 954, 22 October 1910, Page 5

MAGNIFICENT OFFER.

BY MB. W. C. BUCHANAN. > HOME FOR INCURABLES. (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) : . Masterton, October 21. The Secretary of tho AVairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to-day received a letter from Mr. W. C. Buchanan, M.P.i offering to defray tho cost of a home for inourables, containing sixteon beds,-to be erected on -the Greytown Hospital site, also four beds for inournble consumptives. Tho chairman of tho, board telegraphed "to Mr, Buchanan, as follows:— . ■ '. "Your inaguificont offer will bo duly placed before the board at their meeting; on Wednesday, ; Novoinber 2." Interviewed by a Dominion reporter with reference] to his offer yesterday, Mr;. Buchanan said that homes for incurables were .largely occupied by old men who had spent their.lives in country districts, and had no, homes of their own. . The hospital authorities would not, as a rule,. maintain these' old residents. They were,incurable.by reason of old age or other troubles. There was a Koike of the kind in .Wellington, where as,many incurables wore located as was ' possible. One of the, greateiit. difficulties in .connection. with. the maaitenarice of these old men was that' 1 they,would not leave the- djstriots to' which they i belonged. They, showed ho desire to remain; at homes in the towns. ■'. In the .'course-of further remarks, Mr. Buchanan said .that there ;was : ■ ample room on the hospital grounds at' Greytown • for.' suoh an institution:. It was convenient that a home of the kind; should be located near a general hospital. ; ;There was another : home of. the kind at .Carterton : which had/been built from a bequest left by the late Mr., .Carter, after, whom Carterton was named. ;In,connection with that home, however, it was a condition that inmates' should be. drawn '.only from a circumscribed .area—the district imme- : diately surrounding, Carterton. r, Mr." Buchanan, went on to say .that ,the only condition in regard to his re- : quest,was thatrthe inmates, should be drawn from the ; Wajra'rapa 'district. If ,his offer j met with the' approval of the board he hoped '. that, the', institution would bo.ejected: at once, \lh'connection with.; his. offer, the question of. a Government' subsidy was' riot contem.'plated,': ; .; v .' •■'" .■■...''■■■';. *' .-..-'■ .'■.■