CHILD WELFARE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 186, 22 July 1920, Page 6

CHILD WELFARE.

SOCIETY HEALTH OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. DEPUTATION TO PREMIER. Wellington, July' 2. The Prime Minister and the Minister for Public Health were interviewed today by a deputation of 200 members of the New Zealand Society for the Health of Women an’d Children, with reference to finance and further atice of, the work aud the policy of the society. ’The Prime Minister expressed appreciation of the work of the society and particularly of Dr. Truby King. In coming to the Government the society wa» coming to a sympathetic body of men ywho were determined and committed' to give every possible assistance to the work in .hand. He hoped to be able to arrange that so long as Dr. Truby King was prepared to remain in harness all his time should he given to the Plunket Society and similar work. There were heavy demands on the Finance Minister and he could not say that everything the deputation asked for woubi be given. He realised, however, that the work of the society could be done far better by it being a Department of the State, and he was going to take particular care that it got its share of any money that was going. The Minister for Public Health said that an important addition had been made to the society’s requests, and whether they would be granted rested largely with the Prime Minister. The work of the society was well worth supporting, for if it equid save 100 babies a year that was surely worth what it cost to construct half a mile of railway.