MR DUCHANAN'S OFFER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10134, 3 November 1910, Page 5

MR DUCHANAN'S OFFER.

ACCEPTED WITH THANKS.

AND REFERRED TO A COMMIT! EE.

At the meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable.Aid Board in Masterton yesterday, - the letter from Mr. W. C. Buchanan, M.P., already published in the Age, was read, offering to provide a Home for Incurables on the Grey town Hospital site, the said Home to contain fixteen beds and four beds for incurable consumptives. The Chanman, Mr E. G. Eton, said the offer w-as a magnificent one, and he had wired Mr Buchanan, acknowedging its receipt. The offer was now before the Board to deal with. No restrictions had been made in connection with the offer. Mr Eton explained that 'Mr Buchanan had been present at a conference in Greytown when the necessity for a home for incurables had arisen. The offer had come at a very opportune time. It would rid the Board of a great responsibility. They had had frequent applications for the admission of incurable cases to their hospitals, and, at the present time, were paying £7 or £8 per month for the maintenance of poor people who were in unfortunate circumstances. Mr D. Crewe moved the heatry thanks of the Board be tendered Mr Buchanan for his generous offer. As he read the letter, the offer of Mr Buchanan was for the erection of the home, and not for its maintenance, a3 some might suppose. ' The Chairman said that was so.

Mr Crewe suggested that Mr Buchanan and the Inspector-General be consulted as to the nature of the building to be provided. The offer was a handsome one, and Mr Buchanan should be consulted. He presumed there was plenty of space at the Greytown site. Mr Moore said there was forty acres of ground. - The Chairman thought that the right course to adopt was to set up a committee \o confer with Mr Buchanan and the Inspector-General, and report. Mr Crewe agreed to this course being adopted. Mr T. Moss, in seconding the resolution, said he considered the offer a splendid one. A home for incurables was urgently required in the district.

Mr W. Moore said he had already written privately to Mr Buchanan, commending him for his generosity. Mr Buchanan, in reply, stated that it had always been his intention to do something for the aged and the. incurable. He had been waiting, however, for the Wairaraua to be severed" from the Wellington district. Mr Buchanan had never turned an aged or helpless man from his door without assistance. Mr Moore thought the offer a magn'ficent one. It would provide a home for all the incurables they would have for some time, and the Board could easily arrange for maintenance. The motion, returning thanks to Mr Buchanan, and referring the matter to a committee, was then carried with acclamation.

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