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6—The News, Friday, March 18, 1949PLANS READY FOR GIFT HOSPITALBetween C6JOOO and £8J)00 will be spent on building a maternity hospital at Brighton for unmarried mothers.their share was given to approved organisations.Mr. E. W. Williamson, manager of Executor Trustee and Agency Co.. which is administering the Wyld Estate, said today the trustees had oeen greatly impressed by Miss Cocks’ fine welfare work.They had no hesitation In recommending her as superintendent of the proposed home when seeking Supreme Court direction yesterday on the use of Mr. Wyld's estate.’Plans have been drawn up and work will begin as soon as a permit is available.” he said Mr Williamson added that the estate would be much more valuable in 50 years. Mr Wyld had given 100-year leases on blocks of ground In Parade Norwood. When these leases expired the shops on them would be the property of the estate.It will be .conducted In conjunction with the Methodist Girls' Home in Wattle street. Brighton, and will be in charge of Miss Kate Cocks, former principal of the Women Police and now honorary superintendent of the Methodist Babies and Girls' Homes at Brighton Cost of building the hospital will be paid from a bequest of Mr. George Albert Wyld who left all his £30.000 estate to build and endow a maternity hospital for ‘women who have erred for the first time.” Annual income of about £900 from the residue of the estate will help meet running costs. Miss Cocks will be unpaid.The hospital, one of the most compact and modern in Australia. will be known as the Wyld Home.Mr. Wyld. who died in 1911. willed the money to this special welfare work after the deaths of his five children and the reaching of the age of 21 by his grandchildren.Methodist Girls’ Home and similar institutions have already benefited substantially, because on the death of each * of Mr Wylde’s first four children.Thieves enter vicar’s home^Thieves broke into the home of Canon H. P. Fmnis. of Pennington terraqe, North Adelaide. in daylight yesterday.After breaking a pane of glass in the pantry window, they ransacked a bedroom and stole a new leather suitcase valued at £5/9/, two suits, and a quantity of other clothing.
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Adelaide News
Adelaide, South Australia, AU
Fri, Mar 18, 1949
Page 13
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