OBSTETRICAL APPEAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2505, 19 March 1930, Page 7

OBSTETRICAL APPEAL

PROGRESS BEING MADE THE SECREARY’S STATEMNT GPer Press Asso cia tion ). Stratford, March 18. Dr Doris Gordon, secretary of the New' Zealand Obstetrical Society, says tfkjo latest advices show that don talons to the obstetrical endowment appeal in the Wellington provincial district totalled over £3OOO, Canterbury £2OOO and, Otago £I2OO. Tlie Auckland returns were leading the Dominion. Through the Taranaki and Wanganui districts there were a solid chain of donations from public bodies, borough councils, county councils, hospital boards, etc.

“Men folk are realising that as this aus econcerns men just as much as if concerns women, it is not fair to leave all the hard collecting work to the women.

Several Rotary Clubs have a ready expressed their intention of assisting. A group of younger men in fhe Inglewood district have ust shown similar chivalry by announcing that they are going to run a men’s carnival.”