CHILDREN'S CENTRE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 8

CHILDREN'S CENTRE

TRIBUTE TQ COUNCILLORS

A. function was held . in the D.L.P. | rooms, Featherston Street, on a recent j evening, when the Mayor and Mrs. Appleton and members of the reserves committee of the Wellington City Council were the guests of the executive of the Thorndon Children's Centre Association. Mrs. E. M. Hopkins, who arranged the function, welcomed Mr. and Mrs. Appleton and the councillors. on behalf of Mr. Chapman, M.P., president, who was unavoidably detained at the House, and she thanked them-for their kindness with regard to the ground the council had granted the association. Mr. Appleton, in reply, stated that he. and the council were wholeheartedly behind the association, and would do all in, their power to help. It was his policy to help all organisations that were doing something to help themselves. He instanced the cases: of Miramar, where Mr. Semple had got behind the movement, and where-excellent Plunket rooms had been built, and at Mornington and Vogeltown, where a hall had been planned.

Mr. R. L. Macalister, chairman of the reserves committee, said that the ground was the best at present available in Thorndon. He would have liked to have given the association a piece of ground on the flat, but that had been impossible.