MR BUCHANAN'S OFFER.

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MR BUCHANAN'S OFFER.

GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY NOT CONTEMPLATED.

Interviewed on Friday night concerning his magnificent offer to pro-

vide a home for incurables in the

Wairarapa, Mr W. C. Buchanan said that homes for incurables were largely oeucpied by old men who had spent their lives in country districts, and had no homes of their own. The hospital authorities would not, as a rule, maintain these old residents. They were incurable by reason of old age and other troubles. There was a home of the kind in Wellington, where as many incurables were located as possible. One of the greatest difficulties in connection with the maintenance of these old men was that they would not leave the districts to which they belonged. They showed no desire to remain at homes in the towns.

In the course of further remarks, Mr Buchanan said that there was ample room on the hospital grounds at Greytown for such an institution. It was convenient that a home of the

kind should be located near a general hospital. There was another home of the kind at Carterton which had been built from a beqtiest left by the late Mr Carter, after whom Carterton was named. In connection with that home, however, it was a condition that inmates should be drawn only from a circumscribed area—the district immediately surrounding Carterton. Mr Buchanan went on to gay that the'only condition in regard to his request was that the inmates should be drawn from the Wairarapa district. If his offer met with the approval of the board lie hoped that the institution would be erected at

once. In connection with his offer, the question of a Government subsidy was not contemplated.