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Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1930, Page 3

Twenty-one new radium needles, each valued at more than £J7 ( were received on Friday by the radiologist Dr P. Clennel Fenwick) on bc.lia'f of the radium department of the Christchurch Hospital. The, needles, each M which contains one. milligram of the radium (dement, surrounded, by, platinum, have been given to the hospital "iider the Travis bequest. Packed inside a leaden pipe within a st'olttj wooden box, the needles were op-ned by D. Fenwick and carduly cbeked. They come .from Golens, Belgium, arid have been tested by M.me. Curie at, Abe Radium Laboratory of Brussels, Micluding the the total rf th° was £3 . It was fully insured. "The new needles are made to l)r Fenwick’s own do ign. They arc both longer.and broader ban ihose now in use at the hospital:. The ourpose of the new design is to s 1 >el cl die softer rays and alh'W only the hardest rays to escape. ‘.‘Their ■ aliie is over £3"".” T)~ F-nwick, ■but they are worth millions to us. They •-.ill greatly add to the efficiency of > radium department at the hospital. I must repeat our great indebtedness £ t to the tristees of the Travis Estate .:)• sc fine a gift.”