£50,000 APPEAL FOR SUPER-VOLTAGE X-RAY UNIT

Taupo Times, Volume IV, Issue 178, 24 June 1955, Page 1

£50,000 APPEAL FOR SUPER-VOLTAGE X-RAY UNIT

I Taupo Quota Is £108 |Tbe Taupo Borough Council, in Sesponse to a letter frorn the Auckland Dlvision of the British Emptre pacer Campaign Society, has opened 4 subscription list at the Council effiees for donations to the £50,000 ippeal being made by the Society, g&jie object of the , appeal is to allow tne purchase of a super-voltage X-ray ijant which, when installed, will aljbw of super-voltage therapy being flallable for cancer sufferers in the

pckiand province. |lt.is understood that of the rnany incer patients treated at Auckland lospitals last year, at least 700, iany of them from provincial areas, light have benefited far more from' J&per-voltage therapy than from the ionventional X-ray treatment they 1*1 . u *■ wre given. P1 expenses of the appeal are beB met by the Auckland Division of i& Society, and every penny given |§Lbe devoted to purchase of the Sppment. t&f the £50,000 which is to be raised p the province, the sum of £108 has leen allocated as the quota for Tau1. The appeal is to conclude com|etely in the first week of July. gihe Borough Council has made a ^nation of £5, and the subscription |st is now open at the Borough Clces, where subscriptions may be pd * in. Intending helpers should jike their payments within tbe week. |be conqplete subscription list wih ' bfe fsMished in the Taupo Times. iimounts received up to Wednesday M were as follows :

£ s d Stopo Borough Council .. 5 0 0 U Swan 5 5 0 1H. Kent 5 0 0 |Total ' £15 5 0