The Herald

50 years ago

SALISBURY, 28 June 1967. — The Salisbury and District Transfusion Service is planning a new £60 000 headquarters buildings. The organisation’s chairman, Mr K J Filer, said the service already has £15 000 for the project.

It is hoped to raise the balance of the money on a “£ for £ gift” idea, details of which he is unable to disclose at present.

Addressing the annual meeting last night, Mr Filer said “an exceptionally able and generous-minded donor has come forward and offered to put up an imaginative fund-raising device”.

Much depends on the service’s approach to the State Lotteries Trustees, but Mr Filer said he is an optimist and recently announced developments planned at Salisbury Central Hospital will “surely add emphasis to the importance of our project”.

Referring to an emergency call for blood donors in May when the blood-bank refrigeration system broke down, he said the immediate response from the public was no surprise to him.