RESIDENTIAL NURSERY

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 71, 21 September 1936, Page 15

RESIDENTIAL NURSERY

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Mrs. L, O. H. Tripp presided over the executive meeting of the Women's National Reserve Residential Nursery, Owen Street. Much interesting discussion took place in connection with the raising of funds for the upkeep of the nursery. The hon. treasurer, Miss Wiltshire, reported the following donations:—Macarthy Trust, £200; Seatoun branch, £12; Lyall Bay branch, £10 Is; Island Bay Circle, £1 12s; Lower Hutt branch, £5 10s; Oriental Bay-Roseneath, £5 10s;' Mr. G. Lamberg, £1 Is; Mrs. James McKenzie, £1. • BUSY TIMES AT NURSERY. A meeting of the management committee of the nursery was held recently, Mrs. F. Porter presiding. The matron's report stated that the month had been a very busy one. The health of children was very good considering they had to be indoors so much owing to the very changeable Weather. The various branches of the Women's National Reserve gave accounts of functions held and to be held in the near future to augment the funds. The matron and committee expressed thanks to an anonymous donor of a ton of coal, to Mrs. H. E. Taylor for half a ton of coal, and also the following donors for gifts in kind (all of which help so much with the running of the nursery and enable many needy to be helped with clothes):—Mesdames Beales, McMahon, Ross, Porter, Fannin, Thornton, Booth, Guthrie, G. Smith, Alf. Gibbons, Priestly, D. H. Taylor, Brooker, Smith, Peterson, Dobson, McCarthy, Dixon (Oriental Bay), Misses O. Bennett, E. Cross, Sheppard, Downward, Freeman, Messrs. Irvine, Dunning, C. W. Taylor, Roberts, and Hanson; branches, Melvose, Berhampore, and Wadestown. WELFARE BRANCH. The secretary of the Welfare Branch of the Women's National Reserve has received messages of thanks and appreciation from the medical superintendent and matron of the Porirua Mental Hospital for hampers and parcels sent to women and children patients from Levin W.D.F.U., Wadestown, Lower Hutt, Khandallah, Palmerston North, Featherston, Kelburn-Northland, Feilding, and Gisborne. Letters of thanks have also been received from patients who have enjoyed outings, picnics, and entertainments provided from a monetary fund by the members and friends of the Welfare Branch.