RADIUM SUPPLIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 882, 28 January 1930, Page 9

RADIUM SUPPLIES

PURCHASES MADE BY BRITISH TRUST British Official Wireless RUGBY, Sunday. At a meeting of the National Radium Trust, held yesterday, :it was reported that the Radium Commission had arranged for the allocation of the first five grammes of radium bought by tlie trust, and that further supplies would be needed to meet impending demands. Accordingly the trust has #decided to. give instructions for the delivery of a further five grammes. For the purchase of this, arrangements have already been made. The trust has also decided to exercise its option to buy a four-gramme lot lent to it gratuitously for three months by the Union Miniere of Belgium, now in use at the Westminster Hospital. The personnel of the National Radium Trust is Lord Pa.rmoor, Lord President of the Council (chairman); Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Minister for Health; Mr. W. Adamson, Secretary of State for Scotland; Sir Ernest Rutherford, president of the Royal Society: Sir John Rose Bradford, president of the Royal College of Physicians: Lord Moynihan of Leeds, president of the Royal College of Surgeons; Lord Dawson of Penn, president of the Royal Society of Medicine; Lord Mackenzie, chairman of the Central Liaison Committee for Voluntary Hospitals in Scotland; Professor A. H. Burgess, president of the British Medical Association; and Viscount Lee of Fare ham.