NELSON'S BENEFACTOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 169, 16 January 1914, Page 4

NELSON'S BENEFACTOR.

(SIFT OP A HOSPITAL. li.v Telegraph.—Press Association. Nelson, Thursday. , At a meeting of the Xelson Hospital and Charitable Aid lioard yesterday itho 'chairman read the following letter from )„\lr. Thomas Cnwt'hron: ''For soma time past, I liavo been of tho opinion -that a new general hospital is urgently ■needed. Towards that end I iliavu learned that any donation that I anay mak<: will be. entitled to a Government (subsidy; of 24s in the £, so I ask your Board to pleu.se have plans prepared for 41 modern, substantial building of the greatest capacity and with an up-to-date operating theatre, tllie whole »' cost, with any necessary new furniture, the sum of £33,0H0, of which I can flni the basic, sum of £15,000 early next •month to enable you to claim tho £18,• 000 subsidy. The building I should | like to see would be a two-storey buildin;* of ferro-conerete or reinforced con- | crete, faced with red bricks, etc., similar to the Nelson Institute, wit'li long I frontage.-! to the north and west, with a I .broad balcony arid verandah running' I the whole length and width. I should I also like the plans to bo shown to mil •medical men that would look at than."

i The Board adopted a resolution expressing its high appreciation of Mr. Cawtiwon's gift and an assurance that J lis wishes woultl 'be complied with in •tho erection of the new building.

. Mr. Oawthron's benefactions to Nelson are many, and represent'a very largo sum of money. Amongst the most «otal>le, are the solar physics observatory about to be erected near the city at a cost of approximately £15,000; -CaWtUron Park, some 44»«nsaa«l*, ai«croa in extent, taking in an area of the most I lmautiful mountain and woodland seenj.ory, witihiin four miles of tho city; a I large organ at the School of Music, and I Church Hill steps.