New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 26, 31 May 1915, Page 5

New Zealand

HOSPITAL SHIP. STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER Peb Press Association. Auckland, May 31. “Things are going on very well indeed in regard to the hospital ship,’' declared the Prime Minister, when questioned on the subject. “With the object of correcting an impression that seems to prevail in some quarters, I may say,” he added, “that the Government was prepared to find the whole of the money necessary for the charter and equipment of the hospital ship, and, as a matter of fact, we are paying the whole sum required for the charter of the ship, wages and the cost of fitting the vessel. But hundreds of generous and patriotic people all over New Zealand have insisted that they should be given an opportunity to contribute to the equipment in cost and material, and they are doing so through bis Excellency the Governor, who has taken a very active and prominent part in connection with this imatter, and I believe that the anfleipatioiis expressed by the Governor ill Auckland a few days ago will be realised, and that when the Maheno » properly fitted out and equipped she will be the best hospital ship in th« world.” STRATFORD CONTRIBUTIONS. Amount perviously acknowledged £572 Is sd, F. E. Lawrence £2, James Robson £2 2s, V. Smith £2. Pictures extra Is, A. Glacy £1 10s, Mrs J. Mo Eadgen £5, W. J. Swindlehurst £1 Is, H. E. Nowell £2 2s, G. S, Ferguson £1 Is, H. G. Reeves £1 Is, collection Bernard’s Pictures £4 8§ 9d. Total £594 8s 2d.