MEN HELPING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 65, 18 March 1930, Page 9

MEN HELPING.

OBSTETRICAL FUND APPEAL.

ENCOURAGING RESPONSE.

OVER £6000 GIVEN IN SOUTH.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

STRATFORD, this day.

Dr. Doris Gordon, secretary of the New Zealand Obstetrical Society, said to-day that the latest advices showed that the donations to the obstetrical endowment appeal in the Wellington provincial district totalled over £3000, in Canterbury £2000, and in Otago £1200. The Auckland returns were not vet announced, but she anticipated that when they were revealed it would be found that Auckland was leading the Dominion.

Through the Taranaki and Wanganui districts'" there was a solid chain of donations from public bodies, borough councils, county councils, hospital boards, etc., the members of which recognised that the matter of securing money for a midwifery endowment at this juncture was a grave civic responsibility. The latest public body reported to have made a donation was the Wanganui Harbour Board.

"The men are realising that as this cause concerns men just as much as it concerns women, it is not fair to leave all the hard collecting work to women," said Dr. Gordon. ~ "Several RotaryClubs have already expressed their intention of assisting. A group of younger men in the Inglewood district have just shown similar chivalry by announcing that they are going to run a men's carnival."

Dr. Gordon added that there was a large body of workers collecting ruouey, and in most places the sacrifice of the collectors was being rewarded by donations proportionate to the resources of the givers and the urgency of the call, but in some few areas people were inclined to respond in shillings only, where the appeal was for whatever the givers could afford.