WELFARE WORK AT TEMPLETON

Press, Volume C, Issue 29539, 14 June 1961, Page 22

WELFARE WORK AT TEMPLETON

Annual Meeting Of Gmnril -This council was started with a view to co-ord;nattnc the social work at the Tcmplrton Hospital.” said toe chairman of the Templeton. Hospital and Tra.in.irg Schoo’ Welfare Council 'Mr D. C Taylor) at the annual meeting of the council on Monday ovening. The council liras been in existence for three yw.ra and a half. Its members include representatives from the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers, the Presbyterian Social Service Association.

the ChriHtrtaurdh, Christohuirch South, and ffiocartrn Rotary Clubs, toe staff of toe hospital and the Prinetw Margaret Hospital, the No. 1 Round Table tn Christ - church, the Christchurch

Junior Chambers and the Returned Services' Association. Observers from the Townswomen'* Guild attended the meeting last evening. The sum of £25 tec bua transport to bring secondary school orchestras to Templeton was presented to the council by Mr R. McPherson on behalf of the Obristahurcii Rotary Club. An anonymous gift of £5 had been used to buy tools, Mr G. F. Maples. repreee»teng the Riccarton Rotary Club, told the meeting. Mr Taylor said that a tape recorder had recently been presented to the patients by the council, and another was to be presented by toe Christchurch Junior Cttam - ber. He said that the counc:’ arranged one concert a month foe toe patients, and the Christchurch Junior Chamber did the same. The Rev. D. G. Show, Presbyterian chapfliain to the Christchurch hospitals, who also represents toe Presbyterian Social Service Association on the council, ask rd whether anything could be done to tai-e hymns photographed to show as slides on a screen.

Mr Taylor arid that he might be able to get this done.

Mr Shew said that he would confer with the other chaplains about toe hymns wanted. He aleo said that files about patients without parents or whose parents li*d lost interest in them, were being nsade. 'Hie information in the files gave ctotbing sizes and the patients' interests. It was being run on an inter-church basis, he said. Mrs C. Perry, representing the W.DJFJ’., said that she was able to get knitting done if wool were available.

Officers elected at the meeting were:—Chairman, Mr D. C. TMylor; \ice-chsirman. Mr G. F. Maples: executive, Mrs C. Persy, and the Rev. D. G. Shaw.