OBSTETRICAL APPEAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17978, 25 March 1930, Page 9

OBSTETRICAL APPEAL.

DEPUTATION TO ROTARY. THE HAMILTON EFFORT. VERY SYMPATHETIC HEARING. By the courtesy of the Hamilton Rotary Club, Dr. S. R. de la Mare, president of the local executive, and Mrs. F. D. Pinfold, lion, secretary, attended at the weekly luncheon of the cluli yesterday to make an appeal on behalf of Hie fund. The objective of the campaign, said Dr. dc la Marc, w : as £25,000 to endow the Obstetrical Department of the Medical School of New Zealand at Dunedin. The University of Otago had never had a Chair of Obstetrics, a chair which was considered necessary in every University. Students in other branches of their studies were able to obtain salisfacory training, but in this branch, so important to the health of the nation, adequate provision had not been made. The public was asked to help to bring the New Zealand school into a condition considered necessary in oilier countries. The j/juola for Hamilton was £SOO, and .4'-house-to-house canvass was being made of the town, so that every man and woman would have an opportunity of making some conlribulion, however small. This canvass would probably produce £250, or one-half of the amount required. A very sympathetic hearing was accorded the speaker, and one prominent .Rolarian. speaking as an individual, suggested that, if the executive were short of the £SOO, a definite scheme might he arranged to make good the deficiency. lie staled that he would be the tenth man to subscribe £lO if nine others subscribed a similar sum. tile twentieth man if nineteen others subscribed £5 cacti, and the fiftieth if forty-nine others subscribed £l. The deputation withdrew with musical honours. THE LATEST RETURNS. STRAT FOR D, Mon day. The returns received by Dr. Doris Cordon, secretary of the Obstetrical Fund, show I hat Wellington is leading with £4730. Canterbury has so far raised £2600, but several returns have yet to come. The return from Dunedin shows £.1300 lo dale, but, Southland is not included. Auckland City so far has raised £2OOO. The Wellington district return is made up as follows : —-Wanganui, £1130; Taranaki, £1052; Wellington City, £800; Hawke's Bay, 700; Manawatu, £655; Wairarapa, £393.