CANCER CAMPAIGN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 965, 7 May 1930, Page 11

CANCER CAMPAIGN

PUBLIC APPEAL PLANNED OBJECTIVE £25,000 A liuge public appeal for funds is shortly to be launched by the Auckland committee of the British Empire Cancer Campaign. The committee aims at a total contribution of £25,000. Preliminary plans were discussed at the meeting of the committee yesterday afternoon. Dr. Kenneth Mackenzie presided. yWe have stood back, so far. because of the obstetrical appeal.” said the chairman. "The appeal is now to be launched as soon as the committee can get the thing into shape. We hope to have it started by the end of the month.”

ft was decided to ask the co-opera-ton of the Mayors of towns and boroughs throughout the province. A sub-commottee, consisting of Messrs. E. C. McCoy, S. Reid and R. O’Shea was appointed to approach big business firms for support. This question of the proportion of money to be spent on advertising is to be considered shortly. Church leaders are to h‘ asked to assist in furthering the campaign.

Dr. K. MacCormick said that the general feeling in medical circles and among laymen in Auckland was that the fund should be expended in actually fighting the disease rather than for research work in the lab ora - tory. Very little of the work being done now in fighting cancer was duo to laboratory research work. Dr. T. W. J. Johnson was elected as the Auckland committee’s delegate to the first meeting of a Dominion council, to be held in Dunedin this month. A donation of £750 from the Auckland Savings Bank to the Hospital Board was appreciated as a help to the campaign’s work. The money is for ereating a fund for the purchase of radium for use in Auckland.