Greymouth Plunket Society

Grey River Argus, 18 October 1948, Page 4

Greymouth Plunket Society

A letter from the Dominion secretary of the New Zealand rJunket Society to the Hokitika sub-branch, received at a recent meeting of the Greymouth branch of the organisation, stated that because of the ; position of the nursing staff it was not possible to set up a branch at Hokitika before February next. It was resolved to ask Miss M. Anderson, M.1.C., to represent the district at the conference of the Society, which is to be held at Wellington on November 2 and 3. Accounts passed for payment ’amounted to £7l 11s Id. Annual collections were handed in as follows: Mesdames Kitchingham and Gillespie, £2l 4s 6d; Mrs Parfitt, £6 0s Id; Mesdames Grant and Fitzgerald, £lB 3s, including £1 Is collected by Mrs McKnight in Preston Road. The Greymouth Operatic Society forwarded a further cheque for £9 2s, making a total of £lO9 2s from the production of “The New Moon”. The nurses’ report for September was: Birth notifications, 65; new cases, 43; visits to homes, 380; to rooms, babies 541, pre-school 55, adults 578; babies under supervision, 660.