WELFARE WORK FOR AGED

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28440, 21 November 1957, Page 16

WELFARE WORK FOR AGED

Diocesan Council’s Difficulty

Without the substantial amounts received from legacies the Social Services Council of the Diocese of Christchurch would have had difficulty meeting expenditure oni aged * peoples’ welfare, said Mr J. B. Williams at the council’s annual meeting last evening. During the year the old peoples’ trust spent considerably more than it had. and £4OOO had to be transferred from the general trust fund.

"With the rebuilding, extensions and other improvements planned, in three years the loss on old people’s work would be £5800.” Mr Williams said. “We have reached the stage where we have bitten off as much as we can chew, and we have to consolidate the position before any attempt is made to spread the work.” One of the council’s difficulties was that its staff members were too keen. Mr Williams said. "They take terrific burdens of work on their shoulders. We have to see that that burden is lightened in some way.”

Nursing additional to that provided by the Nurse Maude Association and other groups for old persons admitted to homes would have to be obtained. Mr Williams said. Already admission had, of necessity been refused to some old persons who needed nursing attention.