CHAIR FOR CRIPPLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 68, 22 March 1938, Page 12

CHAIR FOR CRIPPLES.

NORTHCOTE WOMEN'S GIFT.

An acceptable gift was made yesterday afternoon to the Wilson Home for Crippled Children at Takapuna on behalf of the Northcote Women's Progressive League, the members of which last year constituted themselves a local committee to assist the work. The convener of the Wilson Home Hospital Auxiliary for Northcote, Mrs. Archie Campbell, with representatives of the Northcote Women's Progressive League, comprising Mesdames W. E. Carter (president), D. P. O'Leary (patron), S. W. Brooker (secretary), W. F. Ward (treasurer), W. M. Jacks, I. W. Muirhead (committee members), N. E. Heath Mr. D. P. O'Leary, and Miss Isobel Crowe (for the voluntary transport service) attended the Wilson Home to make the presentation. This was a wheel-chair, to be used in moving patients from the massage room to the verandah and wards. The inscription on the silver plate read: "Presented by the Northcote Women's Progressive League." The chair is strongly built, in accordance with specifications provided by the matron, Miss Falconbridge, to whom the chair was handed over, the speakers for the Northcote women being Mesdames Archie Campbell, W. E. Carter, and D. P. O'Leary. The visitors were shown round the home and saw the working of the institution and the treatment in process of application. Novelty packets of chocolates were given to each child by the Northcote convener. The visitors were afterwards entertained at afternoon tea by the matron, Mesdames Campbell, Carter and O'Leary conveying appreciation of the hospitality extended to the party from Northcote.