“GRATUITOUS INSULT.”

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 July 1933, Page 5

“GRATUITOUS INSULT.”

PLUNKET GRANT REFUSED,

The Woodville County Council has ; declined to renew the donation it made .last year to the of the Woodville Plunket Society. The Chairman (Mr Grainger) said the Council had Vhad no intention of making the donation an annual one. As trustee of the ratepayers’ money he could not see that it should use its funds for, such .purposes. “ People who breed children should provide for their necessities,” added the chairman. Cr. Galloway: “Well, so far as that goes if there were no children we shouldn’t be here.” It was decided that the clerk write declining the re- , quest. The chairman’s remarks have brought forth an indignant protest from Mrs P. M. Whittington, lion, secretary of the Woodville Plunket Society. “Much may be forgiven the chairman,” she says, “on the score that he is a bachelor. We are willing to overlook his profound ignorance of what the Plunket movement stands if or. We doncede also that he is actuated by a fine sense - of his duty 5 to the ratepayers, when he refuses support to the local branch of a society that has so far justified its existence that, beginning in New- .. Zealand, it has spread to Australia and Great Britain, to the United States and Canada, to the Continent of Europe and even to Palestine. But does .Mr Grainger consider it part of his duty to the ratepayers to accompany . his refusal by a gratuitous insult, not -only to the New Zealand Plunket Society, but to every self-respecting parent in the Dominion?”