PLUNKET SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 150, 28 June 1938, Page 7

PLUNKET SOCIETY

YEAR'S GOOD WORK FUNDS REQUIRED ELECTION OF OFFICERS >f — ' s The conference hall at the Dominion 0 Farmers' Institute was filled for the annual meeting of the Welling--S ton Branch of the Royal New Zealand -- Society for the Health of Women and r- Children yesterday afternoon. Mrs. H. h Jowett presided, and amongst those e present were the Mayor (Mr. T. C. A. Hislop) and Mrs. Hislop, the Minister of Health (the Hon. P. Fraser), and r Mr. C. Weston, K.C. 3 The annual report, said Mr. Hislop, h showed as always that the work of 3' the society was growing, and that e there was an increasing need for its . activities. Unfortunately, despite valiant efforts and grants from various sources, it was difficult to carry on d the activities as they should be carried, d The task was being done in the main , in a wonderful way, but funds were required, and he hoped that in the com--1:1 ing year they would be provided by a the activities of those who had the welfare of the society at heart. Last year they had been fortunate in re--1 ceiving the donations of Lord Nuffield y and Mrs. Sutherland. FINE EXECUTIVE WORK. ;, Mr. Weston, seconding the motion, it did so with a note of admiration for the executive. His fellows on the ade visory board would not criticise him ti when he said that their work was only :. an insignificant part of what was being it done. The Wellington branch, with its y fifteen sub-committees, was an example e of almost perfect organisation. Finance i had always been a difficulty, but he e quoted the reduction of the deficit on i the Karitane Home from £734 in 1931 t to £62 this year as an instance of e management running on oiled wheels. EXTENDED FIELD. , The chairman (Mrs. H. Jowett) said j that the substantial result of the year's s working had only been possible •j through the happy relationships be--1 tween all the committees, the nursing ■j staff, and the secretarial staff. The _ branch now had seventeen sub-commit-v tees, as from the beginning of the year it had taken over Newlands, g Johnsonville, and Tawa Flat. This had _ meant an extension of staff. The exj cellent results mentioned by Mr Weston were really due to the work of 5 the fees committee in collections. The f nurses, of course, were well prepared, 1 being specially trained and carefully . supervised before being permanently j appointed. TRIBUTE TO FOUNDER. " Congratulating the Wellington ~ branch, the Hon. P. Fraser said that the death of the founder was marked I by tributes not only from New Zeaa land, but from beyond, including one * from the Queen. While in England in I 1925 as one of a party of delegates, ' it was his privilege to have a conversation with the Queen, and when she knew that he came from Welling- " ton she immediately spoke of the happy occasion when she had opened the , Karitane Hospital. The work of Sir ' Truby King was understood not only in New Zealand, but in Great Britain, on the Continent of Europe, and particularly in Vienna, where Sir Truby King himself initiated it, also in ; Canada, where the work was going on in various forms, and in Palestine, so that when the founder died the work went on throughout the world. He had heard it de scribed by an eminent doctor as one of the most prominent discoveries in the history of medical and health achievement. The Wellington branch wp<= congratulated on its successful year by a representative of the coastal towns, and thanked for its co-operation by the Wellington Crippled Children Society. The election of officers resulted as follows:—President, Mrs. H. Jowett; vice-presidents, Lady Chapman, Lady Hunt, Mrs. McVicar, Mrs. G. Cook, Mrs. H. Hall, Mrs. Hope-Gibbons, Mrs. C. E. Richardson, Mrs. W. Bullock, Mrs. T. P. Vautier, Mrs. T. G. Gray, Mrs. Tythe-Brown, Mrs W. Young, Mrs. F. Hodson, Mrs. R. M. Jack, Miss K. Barnett, Miss E. Cameron, Mrs. W. Parton, and Mrs. G. Johnston; general committee, Mrs, D. A. Aiken, Mrs. G. C. Miller, Mrs. F. C. Burgess, Mrs. B. B. Wood, Mrs. G. F. Wilson, Mrs. W. H. Price, Mrs. G. Robertson, Mrs. H. Vickerman, Mrs. P. B. Cooke, Mrs. R. Maylor, Mrs. R. Mathews, Mrs. E. D. Good, Mrs. E. W. Hunt, Mrs. H. R. Chalmers, Mrs. D. Whyte, Mrs. R. B. Tennent, Mrs. J. N. Greenland, Mrs. Cory-Wright, Mrs. S. P. McDonald, Mrs. N. V. Wotton, Mrs. H. Ainslie, Mrs. G. Bassant, Mrs. C. Holden, Mrs. V. Hopkirk, Miss A. Kane, Miss Firth, Mrs. C. Weston, Mrs. McGill, and Miss Finneane; sub-com-mittee, Mrs. A. B. France, Mrs. C. Girdlestone, Mrs. W. C. A. Peterson, Mrs. L. R. Petrie, Mrs. R. M. Jack, Mrs. Steele, Mrs. H. R. Thomas, Mrs. T. Henderson, Mrs. H. Bayldon Ewen, Mrs. G. Littlejohn, Mrs. H. Franklin, Mrs. C. Mexted, Mrs. Wild, Mrs. P. E. Pattrick, Mrs. Binet Brown, Mrs. e! ' B. Nees, and Mrs. Kettlewell; honorary physicians, Drs. Platts Mills, Gibbs, Giesen, Line, Arthur, D. Stout, G. Anderson, W. Young, and R. Stout; honorary committee, Mrs. Chatfield, Mrs. F. Leckie. Mrs. J. G. Coates, Mrs. W. Bethune, Mrs. J. Joseph, and Adjutant Glover; advisory board, Mrs. S. Kirkcaldie, Mr. W. F. Ward. Mr. P. C. Watt, Mr. E. W. Hunt, Mr. P. E. Pattrick, Mr. C. H. Weston, the Hon. W. Nash, Dr. W. Young, Dr. Lan Ewart, Mr. Annand Smith, and Mr. H. Taylor; honorary auditors, Messrs. Hunt, Turner, and Heslop; honorary architects, Messrs. Gray Young, Morton, and Young; honorary solicitor, Mr. W. F. Ward. Votes of thanks closed the proceedings.