Dr MacRae Fund Meeting
From Moriston Matters Issue 20, August 1980
The Dr Buchanan Memorial Fund
On Monday 9th June, there was a public meeting in the Memorial Hall, Fort Augustus, to wind up the business of the Dr. Buchanan Memorial Fund. From Glenmoriston Mr. Ian Grant, the remaining committee member - Mr. Gordon Cowie having left the district at the end of the year - was present, but no members of the public (The meeting bad been poorly advertised in The Glen) and so in order to complete the story of this particular chapter of events begun on that sad Sunday afternoon nearly three years ago we report the following facts kindly supplied by Mr. Hamish Sherriffs, chairman of the meeting.
The money subscribed amounted to £1486.70 which, along with accumulated interest, reached a final total of £1647.21. After a deduction of £40 for initial press notices, the projector, the use of which many of us have already enjoyed at various functions, was bought for £600; and the remainder of the money was spent at Dr. MacRae's discretion on items of medical equipment for use in the surgery and furnishings for the comfort of the patients visiting it.
The committee who had applied themselves diligently to the difficult task of gathering and administering this fund were thanked and discharged.