PROPOSED PLUNKET AND REST ROOM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 31 March 1936, Page 4

PROPOSED PLUNKET AND REST ROOM

APPEAL BY THE MAYOR TRIBUTE TO WORK OF THE SOCIETY (To the Editor) Sir, —In to-night's “Mail” appears a plan of the proposed "building for a combined Plunket and Rest Room. The need of such a building miist be apparent to all when consideration is given to the present old and unsightly Rest Room. The arrangement entered into by the City Council with the Plunket Society, whereby the Society undertakes the work and control of the Rooms at little cost to the Council is an excellent one. We shall have a fine building, well equipped, handy to the business area and amidst pleasant surroundings, a building, moreover, that will be in keeping with the requirements of an up-to-date city and one of which we may feel proud. The Plunket Society is doing a splendid work in the Nelson Province in its endeavour to give (free of charge) advice and assistance to mothers and their infants. We owe much indeed to the Society for what it is doing and has done in this direction and for the fact that the infant mortality in New Zealand is now the lowest in the world. The aim of the Society is to build bonnie healthy babies „wlio will be the future citizens of this Dominion To enable the Society to carry on this work still more effectively' funds are required for the erection of ,the proposed building. The amount still required is about £3OO and I earnestly appeal to all citizens to support the effort that is being made to raise this sum. . .. I feel confident that a recognition of the duty and responsibility _ which we owe to our women and children will induce all who can to respond as liberally as possible to this appeal. —I am ptc GEO. L. PAGE. (Mayor). Nelson, 31st March.

FURTHER DONATIONS RECEIVED

£ s. d. Previously acknowledged 73 7 0 West Coast Visitor 0 2 0 Mr S. Gorman 3 6 0 Stoke-Wakatu Branch ...W.l. i i 0 Mr W. R. Martyn i i 0 Waimea Branch . W.iJ.F.U— i 0 0 Mrs A. J. Glasgow 2 0 0 Mrs Roger Hunt 0 10 0 Mrs j. R. Wallace 0 10 6 Mrs J. Glasgow 2 2 0 Mrs E. E. Fell 5 0 0 Toe H. League of Women Helpers 1 13 0 Mr A. A. Lucas 3 3 0 •TIE 6 0 0 Total to date £100 12 6