MOTHERS’ AIDS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 269, 9 August 1943, Page 3

MOTHERS’ AIDS

Discussion At Women’s Institute Conference

A svsteui of training aids who wou.d be available to mothers of young children where there was sickness was discussed at. length at the South Island conference of Women’s Institutes. The conference strongly favoured such a scheme being formed, but urged that it should be carried out under a women’s committee rather than under the control of a Government department. ’ , , As a means of increasing the population in New Zealand the delegates decided that orphanages such as Dr. Barnardos Homes should be established, as well, as a system of private adoption with a view to bringing out: young children w-ho might grow up iu this country and become New Zealanders, rather than bringing out adult immigrants who would not be used to conditions of living in' the Dominion. The drift of young people from , the country to the towns aud the possibility of checking this was also discussed,. as well as the necessity for working for the uplift of the morals of young people. It was recommended that as a post-war plan of reconstruction an exhaustive inquiry into the incidence of insanity in New Zealand should be undertaken, with particular reference to causal . agents ano. preventive measures as distinct from remedial measures. t>„, ou When speaking to a remit from Batea on the question of child delinquency, Mrs. A. Carey urged co-operation with the Education Department or with those responsible for carrying into effect any measures that may be introduced to help fit children to be good citizens, emphasizinir that any change in the school curriculuni must have the help and support of the parents.