PLUNKET SOCIETY TEACHINGS
MR CARR SUGGESTS RESTRAINT
(From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, October 7. The Minister of Social Welfare (Mrs G. H. Ross) was asked in the House of Representatives today by Mr C. L. Carr (Opposition, Timaru) to use her influence with the Plunket Society to ensure that “its excellent work is not reduced in its effectiveness by certain practices that have crept into its teachings which are open to criticism, such as what may be described as trussing up and strapping down.” Mr Carr, in a note to the question, said that in the Timaru district on May 15, 1951, and April 30, 1952, Plunket babies were strangled, and on the second occasion the Coroner (Mr M. M. Enting) said it was perturbing to think strangulations were possible by means of a cloth harness. "This is the second case of its kind' I have had in a comparatively short time, and although I understand that the harness generally used is of an approved type, it seems to me to be a very unwise practice to use any kind of harness of a restraining fi atu £e.” the Coroner said, according to Mr Carr.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26856, 8 October 1952, Page 10
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