MORE VOLUNTARY SERVICES
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(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 1.
A university lecturer today advocated increased voluntary health services in New Zealand, as opposed to State health services.
Dr. J. H. Robb, of the social science department of Victoria University, praised the work of the Plunket Society in evidence before the committee on preschool health services. Dr. Robb said that, with few exceptions, people did not really like things being done to them, or even for them, but they were usually happy, given the opportunity, to co-operate with those who were willing to work with them.
He said one of the major defects of the Welfare State as it had developed in New Zealand with its emphasis on the passive receipt of financial benefits, was that it had run counter to these potentialities for active citizenship. Voluntary organisations should be actively encouraged to take a much greater part in New Zealand child welfare work.
He said active voluntary community services helped counter the basically erroneous view that the inevitable result of a Welfare State was to produce a nation of people who selfishly demand service without responsibility.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28936, 2 July 1959, Page 12
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