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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 37, 12 August 1921, Page 4

WHERE WELLINGTON LAGS! Inadequate "Plunket" Rooms NEW PREMISES NECESSARY m. ,DuJ iedin has fin«. commodious Plunket Rooms—«o has Uinstchurch—so has Auckland—but Wellington's Plunket centre consists of two pokey rooms, without adequate facilities, without sufficient seating accomodation for the mothers who are often kept waiting for an hour or more— without sanitary arrangements for the hundreds of women and children who go there— without space for go-carts and prams! The vital importance of proper accomodation was explained m an address given at the opening of the Dunedin Home—and these words suggest the ideal of the Wellington Plunket Home Appeal:; " Year by year we became more ought to be well equipped for deeply impressed with the im- helping and teaching those who portance of providing well-epuij)- come to us lor the sake ol their ped, really attractive rooms where children; but, besides this, they the mothers can rest comfortably should be made so homelike, comwhile waiting: Whenever a, fortable, and really attractive branch has quitted indifferent that the mother's visits may be rooms, acquired good central enjoyable, as well as benettcial premises, and furnished them in and instructive, the best /way as regards amenities, Further, by attracting mother* comforts, and conveniences, ,the to the rooms we save the nurses' invariable result has been a great time. In this way several mothincrease in the number of moth- ers can be attended to in the time ers who turn up. Further, w« it would take the nurse to visit attract women who woujq" be re- a. single house. By means of pelled by any crowding or lack ? practical demonstrations, with of facilities for privacy^—a privacy everything necessary at hand, a which can only be secured by woman can be taught more simphaTing several rooms, ample floor ly and effectively at 'the rooms space,, and the use of screens. than would be possible in her This is not a minor but a major own home. Of course this is matter jn the effective carrying not intended to do away with the out of the Society's mission. We Plunket nurses' visits to the all of us feel grateful when we homes, but it unquestionably enfind a really comfortable, cheery, ables our nurses ito get through attractive waiting-room at our much more work in the year, with doctor's or dentist's, and few, if lessened strain and greater eflicany of us, have escaped spending iency. Where bptfe ■ sides of the a very depressing half-hour un- worker—the visiting and- being der the reverse conditions. vislted-^receive due and proporWe feel that the rooms ought ,tiphate ''attention, the maximum to be a tribute of honour and number of mothers get the maxrespect to motherhood. They imum of help and benefit." Wellington must have a new Plunket Centre; and a number of business men, in association with Dr. Truby Kin^, have determined to carry through a , . /• ■■„.,.. WELLINGTON PLUNKET HOME S 10,000 APPEAL s for the following purpose; N To purchase, equip, and c clow convenient, attractive, and comfortable Headquarters for the Plunket Society'in Wellington, —a place where Mothers can take their. Babies fpr consultation with the Plunket Nurses, and where expectant mothers can receive sound, : sympathetic, advice and< help, under, conditions that ensure privacy and inspire confidence. v , , ; , - Send Ybui^ Donation to-day, to: The Hon. Treasurer*! Plunket Home Fund, MeMrt. Watkin», Hull, Hunt & WheeUr, AcceuntAnta' Chambers, t :, Johnston Street, Wellington

THE OPEN WAREHOUSE! Messrs. George & Doughty Ltd. Beg to inform the public that their OPEN WAREHOUSE ■X ■•'.>■ Idea is oot a NINE DAYS' WONDER. We threw open our Warehouse DIRECT TO THE PUBLIC With the object of realising- on our Drapery Stocks, and DRASTICALLY DISCOUNTED our prices to a ■ point which would ■' ensure the SUCCESSFUL ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THIS AIMFRESH GOODS are being opened up continuously from our LARGE RESERVES IN BULK AND BONDED STORES, and NEW SHIPMENTS COMINC FORWARD, and our Heavily Discounted Wholesale Prices Will continue to rule until the whole of our stock is disposed of. In brief, we are not conducting a " Prapery Sale " in the ordinary sense of the term, but are dealingDIRECT TO THE PUBLIC 8 ■ ' ■ ■ • At Less than Wholesale Prices And our Warehouse has now become The Drapery Market for Wellington OPEN TILL 9 O'CLOCK ON FRIDAY NIGHTS. Warehouse at 61-63 Victoria Street, 1 minute from" Evening/"ost," 1 and close to Public Library. GEORGE & DOUGHTY LTD. Wholesale Warehousemen (Established 1891.) ■ CYCLE AN© SEWING MACHINE EXPEKTS ENGLISH CYCLES ... ; ■ From £11/11/LATEST MODEL "TRIUMPH"-.* h.p., 3-sneed counter-shaft £148 Solo Wellington Ag«nts "R«U>scllle" Sewing Machines Repairs Prompt. ' < 'PilOne 176 F. J. W. FEAR 0X CO. «5 WIfcMS STRKKT . . WELLINGTON