PLUNKET SOCIETY

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23414, 22 August 1941, Page 2

PLUNKET SOCIETY

CHRISTCHURCH

The monthly meeting of the Plunket Society was held in the Plunket rooms. Mrs J. Cracroft Wilson presided. A letter was received from the pominion Council stating that the branch’s share of head office expenses was £202 4s 2d. ........ Mrs H. Wyatt (honorary organiser) reported on arrangements ' ■ made for Plunket Day early next month. Members who were willing to go as delegates to the general conference in Wellington on October 15 and 16. were asked to send in their names before the next meeting. For the Lady King Karitane Hospital, the matron reported that 22 babies had been admitted, and 23 discharged, and that 15 mothers had been, admitted and 15 discharged. It had been an extremely busy month with premature babies, 12 being in residence at one period. an d later in the month 16 babies under 61b were in residence. Triplets and their mother had been admitted, and all-were doing well. A group of 22 girls from the Christchurch West High School had visited the hospital and a demonstration had been given, to them. Gifts had been gratefully received from Miss J. Hamilton, Mrs E. Lunn, and from the Heathcote and Hororata subbranches. Sources of admission were Coalgate, Halswell, Cheviot, Franz Josef, Dehniston, Sumner, Reefton, Christchurch, and suburbs. For the Plunket rooms, Nurse Allan reported as follows: —Pre-natal section: Expectant mothers interviewed for the first time, 33; return visits, 186 cases under observation, 148. Post-natal section: New cases, city and suburbs, 188, out-stations 34; visits to homes; city and suburbs 619, out-stations 87. Visits r to rooms; central, and suburban rooms 3483 adults, 2780-babies, out-stations 368 adults, I 361' bbaies. Pre-school section:' Number of children seen, central 210* suburban rooms 84, out-sta-tions rooms 113. It was reported, that a class for training Plunket aids had- concluded, and that 20 aids had expressed willingness to register as such with '.the Women’s War Service Auxiliary. J Two more classes are how in progress.

ENGAGEMENT

The engagement is announced of Lyndsey Gordon, younger daughter of Dr. and Mrs Arthur Thomson, Christchurch, to Flying Officer Geoffrey George Davis, R.N.Z.A.F., elder son of Mr and Mrs C. C. Davis, Christchurch. 1

FREE PHYSICAL TRAINING

* CLASSES FOR MEN LIABLE FOR SERVICE

For the benefit particularly of men who will shortly be going into military camp, free training classes are being opened in the City Council testing station, Lichfield street, on Monday. The classes will be conducted by a competent instructor from the Physical Welfare Branch, Department of Internal Affairs.

The classes will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 5.15 p.m. to 6 p.m., and will be open to all men liable for military service, overseas, territorials, Home Guard, ' and to any men who want to get into better physical condition.

Many young men going from sedentary occupations to Army life have found the demands made on their physique very severe. The Minister for Defence (tne Hon. F. Jones) has, therefore, approved the proposal to establish free preliminary classes, which will. use. the. military training tables, so that men will be brought Into training gradually and thus avoid undue strain. By the time they are called up they .will find it much easier to adapt themselves, to their new mode of life. ''