Page 5 Advertisements Column 5

Nelson Evening Mail, 27 September 1916, Page 5

Gratitude and appreciation •of sMlful iTeafarienifc received iwfc Melbourne. Haspi* tal Iby a patient 40 years ago—lß76 were ig-mercxusly, |if belatedly, exMbiited! in a l<etter reawJ at <tfhe (mating'' of'tlte Committee of Management of Melbourne Hospital yesterday (says the Aig&of th!e 13th inst.). The -writer informed the committee that a legacy- of £IOOO had been bequeathed to the institution'- by thte late Mr Joseph) Watson, of Messrs Watson and Crane, IM*., Pitt street, Sydmiey. Mir Penfold explained <tha& iiie donor sbime 40 years aigo becaime totally blind, and remained so for six anojitiisi After undergoing treatment at he Visited Melbourne Hospital, '-and -was treated- by ill©-fete Sir Tboaias -Fitzgeraldy with the result that -regaaSed' hrs eyesigihit, -whSch. '• remained -pefrfteeb until hia dfeath oii 25tlh August. Deceased was naturally profoundly grateful when his eyesight was restoi-ed- Bte : Was then not dm"®.'position to make -a contribution! (to the fundb of the institution, but he promised Sic Thomas TTitzcrerald 'that af he ever got "on his 'feet" inr.a financial sense lie -would! not forget what the hospital had done for him'., The present'gift of £I,OOO Was'the' ftfffifejfyiflfc 'of; tto,t j*r4panSfie. -'-vy •