DAY NURSERY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1937, Page 9

DAY NURSERY

EXTENSION NEEDED

A meeting of the Citizens' Day Nursery was held on Monday, when there was a full attendance of members.

The matron reported that now the infantile paralysis restrictions were removed she had been compelled to refuse admission to a number of applicants owing to lack of accommodation. This led to a discussion of ways and means, and it was definitely realised by the committee that a larger.'.and more up-to-date building is required, and that money is badly needed to extend the work. The nursery is a great boon to working mothers, who know that their children are being well fed and cared for while they themselves are earning a living. -The increasing demands upon the activities of the society is sufficient, proof of the need for expansion, and of, the vital necessity for this avenue of usefulness in a city like Wellington. . -

Gifts gratefully acknowledged were donations frorii Woolworths (N.Z.), Ltd., of £4 12s 6d; Mr. J. Smitten, £2; Mr. F. T. Clarke, £1 ls; Miss Bodley, 10s; and gifts of food, etc., from New Zealand Trawling Co., Mr. Rod, Mesdames Greville, Firth, Coutts. Magnus, Sievwright,. Adamson, Atkinson, Clarke, Ward, and Misses Barnicoat and Gow; gifts of .clothing from the Garment Society and from Mrs. Kirk and Miss Barnicoat were also received, and a parcel of toys from Messrs. Sargood, Son," and Ewen were very much appreciated.

At the close of the business of the meeting, tea was, provided .by Mrs. Firth and' I^ady,Frazer, the guests of honour being Mrs. Coventry . (former secretary) and Miss A. M. Stevens. Mrs. Clarke (president), in presenting Mrs. Coventry with a reading lamp,, spoke of the esteem .in which she was held by the committee, and of the good work she had done as secretary of the society.

Mrs. Coventry, in replying, thanked the committee for their useful gift, and read some very apt verses composed by herself, and spoke of the harmonious relationship that had always existed between the committee and herself.

.An appreciation; of the help Miss Stevens had always given in furthering the work of the society was shown by the presentation to her of a flowering plant. Iri thanking the committee she said she was always pleased to help in any good cause for the advancement of humanity. .. ■