HEALTH CAMPS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 82, 23 April 1937, Page 13

HEALTH CAMPS

Telegraph— Press ABSOciation.)

King George V. Memorial Fund LOCAL BODIES' POWERS

(By

■ WELLINGTON, This Day. Some local authorities seem to be under a misapprehension as €0 their powers to contribute to the King George tlie Fifth. National Memorial Fund which is being raised for the pnrpose of establishing permanent, children' s health camps in the Dominion, and a statenient of theii; positiop was made to-day by th® Actipg-Priine ■Minister (the Hon..P. Fraser). Mr. Fraser said that it 5vas the Government's intention that the Memorial should be trpiy national, and he pointed out that the Prime Ministei (the Right Hon. M, J- Savage) lmd promiged that any conti'ibution by a Local authority would he, if necessary, valideted at the next Session of Parliament. The camps, he said, would be more than a great social Bervice. They would also he a memorial ta a King wbo reigned over the Britjsh Uommonwealth of NationB for over twenty-five years, and h,e felt Bure that the two-fold spirit of the appeal would meet with a nation-wide response. "If the whole of the fund were sup- | plied by the Government,'' said Mr. j Fraser, "it would not be a national memorial of the people themselves. In the same jvay, if the whole of the money were oontributed by .the local bodieSj the appeal would still lack the response which the Government, the Right Hon. G. W. Forbes, the Leader of the Opposition (the Hon. Adam Hamilton), and others' associated with it, desire, ( . "It is our wish that .the local bodies should contribute according to theii means, but what i» more important we ask them to co-operate with the Government in organising the response of the citizens within. their areas. As far as possible the amounts raised in the various districts .will be creditec! co those districts." •