PLUNKET SOCIETY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 14 August 1920, Page 2

PLUNKET SOCIETY

MONTH L^MJCETING. The monthly meeting of the Plunket Society was hol.cl in the AVaimoa County Council Room on AVcdnesday afternoon. The expenses for tire month amounted to £4O 2s 6d, from which £l4 is to be sent to the Central Council Dunedin, as the Society’s share of their expenses for two years; each branch having to pay at the rate of £7 a year pei' Plunket Nurse. The Nurse’s report was read. She had paid 108 visits to homes, and there had been a good attendance of 116 visitors to the rooms. The Nurse had paid visits to Wakapuaka and Stoke. A demonstration in bathing a hahy was given at the Girls' Central School. It was suggested that the Society should have a mothers’ meeting in about a fortnight’s time ; and arrangements arc to be made by a sub-com-mittee, Mrs Buchanan read and also toll? the meeting of interesting discussions about tlio different remits at the conference held in AVellington on the 20th July. Everyone was pleased at Dr Trilby King’s new appointment, as the Head of the Children’s Welfare Department. Miss Pattrick, who was matron at -ha Karitane-Harris in Dunedin, and also helped Dr Truby King in London at the hospital,' is to be made Director or Plunket Nursing. It was also decided at the conference that Plunket nurses were to ho paid at the rate of £4, and Karitane nurses £2 per week.