Violet-Day.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20647, 9 September 1932, Page 10

Violet-Day.

It is safe to say that if the people of C'hristchurch were called upon to reduce the annual street appeals to perhaps three or four, by vote, their preferences would leave the Plunket Society secure in its privilege. There is an excellent reason for this, and it is the strongest guarantee that the Society's appeal today -will succeed. Thousands of peoph have given the Society their confidence and their good will because they know at first hand that its work has been wholly and profoundly for good and that the community cannot afford to let it weaken or fail. And they know, if they think at all, that the heed for the Society's saving care is now more anxiously great than ever, since distress has intensified some of the clangers against which its battle is fought. The Plunket Society has no revenue but what it receives by gift, from the State, from its members, and from its friends. It has no expenditure but what is multiplied again and again in the enrichment of the community, in health and happiness; and it could spend every penny of a trebled income as profitably as it now spends what it has. There is the Society's only insecurity; it is not sure of bavirig enough money to do the task to which its hands are set, to say nothing of doing more, and it never can be sure until the public has answered its appeal in pounds, shillings, and pence. That they are helping to remove this insecurity all who give to-day will understand, and understanding that, will give as their means permit and as heart and head prompt together.