CHILD WELFARE.

Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 19400, 28 August 1928, Page 2

CHILD WELFARE.

4 —• PRAISE FOR NEW ZEALAND. / (FBOX OUB OWN cobeespondent.) # LONDON, July 13 Mr Percy Alden, who is chairman of the First Section of the International Conference on Social Work, which begins in Paris need; Sunday, pays a tribute to child welfare work in New Zealand. In an article which he contributes to the "World's Children," he says: "New Zealand is probably the one country in the world where you may say that the child is properly cared for. The expectant mother, the newly-born child, the care of the child from one year upwards until it reaches adolescence, is a remarkable illustration of how the Government and the local authority, assisted by paid, and voluntary workers, can cover the whole field. Nothing seems to be forgotten that will make for the health and the v well-being of the child or the mother. Just as an illustration of what I mean, if a mother with a baby is travelling in New Zealand, a postcard to the proper authority will bring a nurse to any station at which the train calls . with a supply of warm humanised milk I carefully prepared, and, if necessary, I food for tne mother." J