CHILD TRAINING CENTRE
VALUE OF PLUNKET MOVEMENT (New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL July 21. A new pre-school education centre, to be built in Dunedin, would be of tremendous interest to members of the Plunket Society throughout the Dominion, said Dr. Helen Deem, medical adviser to the society, at the society’s Otagp district conference in Invercargill today. Since 1941 the old Kairtane building, standing in the grounds of the new building, had been used as a preschool centre in Dunedin, said Dr. Deem. At this centre the health of the child physically and mentally was cared for by the Plunket Society in conjunction with the Dunedin Free Kindergarten. The first five years were the formative period in a child’s life, Dr. Deem said. Nurses taking their Plunket training in Dunedin learnt about this “PPprtant pre-school period and benefited accordingly. Eighty-six per cent, of the babies in New Zealand were under Plunket care, said Dr. Deem, and a rapidly increasing number of pre-schoo] children were receiving regular attention.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27098, 22 July 1953, Page 2
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