PLUNKET SOCIETY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 249, 16 October 1918, Page 3

PLUNKET SOCIETY.

MONTHLY MEETING,

The monthly meeting of the Plunkel Society's Committee was held on Monday afternoon ; fifteen members attended, Mrs Buchanan presiding. Monthly accounts were passed (£l9 Is 3d). Nurse Thompson's report^was, quite satisfactory, the attendance at the rooms being good and the health of the babies normal. There are i 147 cases now under treatment. Visits have been paid to Richmond, WakefiefJd, Brightwater and Motueka. The minutes of the September Central Council meetinc were read, including a letter from the .Miinster for. Public HealiTT, proposing to cut l down the Government subsidy for the vear to £3OOO, instead of £4400, oil the basis of £IOO for each Pluiiket Nurse, on the ground that the | Plunket Society as a whole pof sec. suffij cient funds for the work, the £3OOO being given to those branches which are in °need of it, at the Central (Council's discretion. . I " The Council, in its reply, protested iTainst the change, as beinrr a breach of the promise given by the Government, as penalising the branches- which were doing the best work, and as hinder i tig work which is confessed to bo of tational importance. After discussion of these letters, it was resolved that the secretary, in acknowledging; them, 'hould be asked to inform the Council hat a deputation had waited upon the kelson member in regard to_ the' matter. and had received- promise of his. •npport. The Council proposes that a r )ominion Bahv Day be held annually U the end of' February, each branch •naking its own arrangements,: . The "'nin'cil also acknowledged the receipt -f Mrs Trubv King's paper on "Care of r nfant. Life," to be read at the Australian Conference. Suggestions' were nade as to Nurses Thompson's holiday, ; to be before Christmas if possible, the °eretary to write enquiring about a relieving nurse. There was some discussion regarding a rest room at the Richmond Show on November 20th —and it was, decided hat the President and Secretary, and is many of the 'Committee as found it • onvenient, should accompany Nurse Thompson on her visit to Richmond on November 6th to make arrangements, miH that an effort should be made to hold a public meeting on that, afternoon. to arouse interest in the .work of he Society. A letter was read from the secretary of the National Council )f Women. South Africa, asking for nformation, and some of the Society's literature. A letter has also been received from Simla, asking for f-vies of 'he books ' published by the Plunket Soicetv. '