NEW ZEALAND BED.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 24 March 1926, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND BED.

QUESTION OF ENDOWMENT. Tho Timaru Borough Council, at their meeting on Monday night, received tho following letter from the Prime Minister: —I have tho honour to inform you that tho Rockfollow Foundation made to the University College Hospital (University of London) in 1923, a gift of £1,205.000 for certain purposes connected with medicine, ono of the conditions of the gift being that £400,000 should be cxepnded upon a, building programme for the provision of 180 additional beds, inclusive of a, new Obstetric Hospital. The question of endowing tho beds at once arose, and committees were formed for the purpose of obtaining contributions for endowing beds, one to be named after each of tho overseas Dominions. The work in connection with tho New Zealand bed was taken in hand by Lady Hardwickc and Lady Myers, with results which arc not so gratifying to those ladies as they would wish. Tho position is, that wliilst tho full endowment of £3,000 had been raised by Australia, South Africa and India, only £B9B has been collected for the Now Zealand bed, and an appeal has now been made to this Dominion to find the balance of the cost of endowing the Now Zealand bed. I should bo glad to have your co-operation in bringing tho appeal before the public, and if you agree, to have subscription lists opened in your Borough. Council lore said they did not know enough about tho matter to enable them" to deal with it, and the letter was held over for further consideration. It was remarked however, that the matter appeared to be ono for the Government rather than for local bodies.